
Marc Silver
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It all started when a school was demolished — for reasons not entirely clear — over the weekend in Nairobi.
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Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled the civil war in South Sudan and resettled in Uganda. This 12-minute documentary shows the daily struggle to get water.
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Dr. Hussam Jefee-Bahloul writes poems to capture his longing for his troubled homeland.
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It's complicated to confirm a death. But a new study gives a minimum number of health workers who've been killed since the war began six years ago.
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This week, armed men ambushed and killed the field workers in Afghanistan. Two others are missing. So far, no one knows who did it — or what the motive was.
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Three master chefs created a special candy 'to raise awareness on food waste and hunger' and served it at Davos, where the intellectual elite meet to ponder the world's problems.
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Kennedy Odede was living on the streets, getting into fights. He was looking for hope. And he found it in the story of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Since our blog is called Goats and Soda, we believe it is our duty to bring you global goat news.
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Employees of Pakistan International Airlines sacrificed the animal to mark the first flight of an ATR turboprop plane since the fleet was grounded following a Dec. 7 crash.
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Dr. Raj Panjabi started Last Mile Health to bring health care to remote parts of Liberia. Now he has received the very generous TED Prize, to be used to fulfill "a wish."