Cholera cases in Yemen have been slashed by a new system that predicts where outbreaks will occur. Last year, there were more than 50,000 new cases in just one week - this year, the numbers plummeted to about 2,500. The system has enabled aid workers to focus efforts on prevention several weeks in advance of an outbreak - by monitoring rainfall. It comes as the UN says it is concerned about a possible "third wave" of the epidemic. The deployment of the technology has been coordinated by the UK's Department for International Development.

If you've watched "Game of Thrones," you've probably come to realize that the show and real life have at least one hard truth in common: people die and you don't always know when to expect it. And, like many a pondering soul, you may also wonder when that judgment day will come. Now, students at the Technische Universität in Munich, Germany, have developed an application that may help you answer that question (at least as far as John Snow and company are involved). The students reportedly developed a computer algorithm in a programming course that mines the internet -- the place where people spend extensive time mulling over things like how tall Tyrion Lannister is, or whether he will die an untimely death while sipping on mulled wine -- and recycles that information in order to predict who will get the axe, or sword, next. "We tested 24 characteristics - for example, how many relatives of the character are already dead," Tatyana Goldberg, one of roughly 40 researchers who worked on the project, said.