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 ...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Kenyan artist is visiting Sioux Falls and using some of his artwork to give people a glimpse at what it’s like in the slums of Kenya. This comes after a fundraiser in ...

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 ...

Up to 37 million households - a quarter of India's urban population - live in informal housing including slums due to a critical shortage of affordable housing KOLKATA, India, March 7 (Thomson Reuters ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...