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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The company claims that after it was selected, the process was cancelled and fresh rules were introduced that prevented it ...

hey call the slums villas miserias, or little cities of misery. Instead of names, most have been assigned numbers by the Argentine government. Father Carlos Olivero lives in a small concrete church in ...

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

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 ...

SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...