Marc Silver

Since our blog is called Goats and Soda, we believe it is our duty to bring you global goat news.

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.

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."

The goal is to bring vital but neglected stories to the public eye.

One man at Malawi's Zomba Prison said that music is a form of freedom for the inmates, transporting them to a better place.

The co-founder of Partners In Health says the damage from Hurricane Matthew seemed worse than that of the 2010 earthquake. And he couldn't get over the way people reacted.

They're helping needy families in Cameroon as part of a Red Cross giveaway. And in Indiana, a kid got a soul serenade from Grammy winner Anthony Hamilton.

Cataracts are the No. 1 cause of blindness. In the West, a simple surgery can reverse the vision loss. An HBO documentary looks at the effort to do the same for people in the developing world.

Amid gunfire and grenades, aid workers struggle to provide food, water and health care to the residents of Juba.

It's now a star-studded video from the U.N.'s Project Everyone, and it's going viral. We ask some globally-minded girls: Does it do a good job promoting gender equality?

A new study suggests that there's more to a goat's stare than you might think.

The U.K. gives billions of pounds to the developing world. Will this benevolent spirit survive in the wake of Brexit?

A video of a Lithuanian goat beauty contest is going viral. But ... what makes a goat beautiful?

A third of hospitals surveyed in low- and middle-income countries report they do not have running water all the time. And sometimes not at all.

It's called "Running (Refugee Song)." Keyon Harrold, the trumpet star and one of the composers, talks about the art of creating a song with a conscience.

Yes, he is intense. He has a lot of tattoos. And he absolutely loves Senegal.

Correspondent Jason Beaubien talks about his week at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in South Sudan.

Deep (and not-so-deep) thoughts from Thomas Thwaites, author of GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human.

The U.S. aid group MCC just suspended a $463 million "compact" with Tanzania because of concerns about unfair elections on its semi-autonomous island, Zanzibar.

Keo Motsepe reflects on what dancing has taught him — and what he's teaching folks about his homeland.