Hyderabad: Lack of response to long-pending civic issues — from poor drainage and flooded during rains to erratic water ...

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

Each summer, the thousand or so families living in a floodplain informal settlement on the edge of Kathmandu brace themselves ...

By 2063, Africa’s cities will host an additional one billion people. Yet today, 23 of the continent’s 52 countries remain low-income, with more than 80% of urban jobs in the informal sector. For ...

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Peter visits Pine Ridge Reservation. What do you know about it? Most members of B.C.'s legislature vote against bill to stop land acknowledgements Schneider asks Ohtani to ‘give us our stuff back’ ...

In 2023, Johnson & Johnson announced it had stopped research and development on therapeutics for many infectious diseases, including hepatitis and tuberculosis. Less visibly, AbbVie shuttered last ...

It was a common scene in the slums of the Cambodian capital: warrens of huts wedged between garbage-strewn streets; tiny children begging for food at nearly every corner. For Elizabeth Ross Johnson, ...

Money can't buy happiness or love – but it may buy more years of life, a new national report suggests. Older adults in the poorest 20% of the U.S. population die, on average, nine years earlier than ...

Is he a slumdog millionaire? An Australian influencer has been accused of engaging in “poverty tourism” after filming himself “surviving” in an Indian slum, as seen in a viral Instagram video. “I ...

Lilongwe, Malawi (KDVR) — It seems like everywhere Grant Arends goes in Malawi, the locals shower him with gifts. Big bunches of bananas, buckets of potatoes. Even live chickens. The gifts may not ...

Detroit has the nation’s second-highest poverty rate among cities with at least 65,000 residents and Flint ranks third, according to 2024 data recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau. No. 1 was ...