It is named after a massive nearby rubbish dump, but people are queuing up to move into Abuja's Big Bola slum as rents ...

Flimsy shacks of tin and ply have given way to sleek, painted newbuilds - small, clean and leak-free - in Bangkok's biggest ...

BRAZILIAN police have been accused of decapitating a teenage gangster and hanging his head from a tree like a trophy in a ...

President Trump has been warned to "get off the golf course" in the middle of the U.S. government shutdown. The U.S. Government shutdown has hit three weeks, as it becomes one of the longest in ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the lowest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of slum populations, you can directly go to 5 ...

Mumbai: In a major demolition drive jointly carried out by the Mumbai Suburban Collector’s office and the Brihanmumbai ...

The Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) of Mumbai plans to map every slum structure by December 2025, employing digital ...

Residents can trade discarded plastic for "green points", or credits, they can redeem for services such as drinking water, toilets, showers, laundry and even meals.

We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 five billion of the world’s population of eight billion will ...

Forget about Utopia or even the dystopian Los Angeles depicted in Blade Runner. The future of the city is a vast Third World slum. This year, the world will pass a milestone so profoundly significant ...

Kolkata: Close to 1,000 dwellers of 220 families of Jhoro Bustee, a slum off Golf Club Road, have moved to the KMDA-built ...

BMC demolished 42 slum structures in Andheri to build a key bridge, easing traffic but leaving many families homeless amid ...