The droughts in Somalia are creating the latest refugee crisis. At the same time, Western countries are clamping down on asylum claims. But a new type of city could house refugees and give them a chance to form their own economies.

Sickweather is the latest effort to mine data in order to reveal how common colds--and worse--are going around your neighborhood.

One of the banned sites--the Huffington Post--reported yesterday that the source of Haiti's cholera outbreak could be from a Nepalese peacekeeping base.

How one organization, Population Services International, is using traditional and untraditional marketing to save lives.

Haiti has lost a lot in the months since it was hit by a massive earthquake. But it never had a strong Internet infrastructure to begin with. Now Google's nonprofit arm hopes to change that.