CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Cape Town, the slums of Flamingo Crescent and Santini are just 20 kms apart but the gap in the standard of living in these two settlements is ...

MONROVIA (Reuters) - In the heart of Monrovia's worst slum, Gabriel Mobo sits on a wooden bench surrounded by playing grandchildren and surveys his neighborhood - a crush of tin and brick hovels ...

In Brazil, 12 million families -- up to 60 million people -- live in slums, known as "favelas" in Portuguese, and 55 million people do not have access to a sewage system. Until now, the Catholic ...

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The World's Worst Place to Be Gay? Scott travels to Bwaise, one of worst slums in Kampala, to meet a group of young gay’s who’ve been disowned by their families, thrown out of their homes and can’t ...

In the national headquarters of the American Federation of Teachers in Chicago, President Jerome Davis last week tacked up a map of U. S. “intellectual slums.” The Federation had just finished a ...

Work, shopping, church and the pub kept different classes apart far more than 'residential segregation' in 1850s Manchester, undermining key assumptions about the Industrial Revolution. Historians ...

Hyderabad: The ongoing cold wave has led to a sharp 30% rise in cases of cold, cough, fever and other respiratory illnesses ...