MUMBAI (Reuters) - In Nehru Nagar, the teeming Mumbai slum featured in the Golden Globe-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire," the only music heard is on tiny radio sets and the young boys have no ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – Here in the Kibera slum, life sometimes seems a free-for-all. Residents steal electricity by tapping into overhead lines, children walk barefoot through alleys trickling with sewage, ...

A devastating fire tore through the Korail slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, burning or damaging 1,500 shanties and leaving ...

This story takes you deep inside Pakistan’s largest slum, a densely packed maze of makeshift homes, narrow alleys, and endless human movement. The community is built from scrap wood, tarps, rusted ...

A grassroots NGO led by former slum residents transforms lives through education, food security, and creative empowerment.

A massive fire swept through Dhaka's Korail slum, leaving thousands homeless as it destroyed rows of tin-roofed shanties. The ...

KIBERA, Kenya (Reuters) - Crispian Amolo has no electricity or running water and shares a hole-in-the-ground toilet with about 90 people but at least he does not have to scramble for 1,000 Kenyan ...

Islamabad, Pakistan — Until about a year ago, Merhia Baraki was a makeup artist for Afghanistan's state-run television network. CBS News met her Tuesday in a park in Pakistan's capital, as she tried ...

Why do slums co-exist with affluent neighbourhoods? Mukuru with South B, Kangemi with Loresho, Githogori with Runda, Mathare with Muthaiga, Deep Sea with Spring Valley? Other towns outside Nairobi ...

Divya Khosla Kumar recently talked about her tough experience living in a slum for 20 days while getting ready for a movie role. She recalled how she did daily chores and adjusted to the hard living ...

Stretching like scars across hills and valleys, the crumbling townships of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa send a message of despair to visitors. But it is in this doleful ...