THESE horrifying photographs show the squalid properties owned by rogue landlords including one bathroom with a toilet in the shower. A collection of rental properties in Oxford have been labelled the ...

Every year, tens of thousands of people in Japan go missing on purpose to get a second shot at life. The South China Morning Post spoke to two men who have disappeared from their old lives. "I was ...

Like the untouchables in the Indian caste system, the ‘filthy’ slum dwellers of Nairobi have been shunned by a nation that is busy trying to achieve post-industrial status by turning the capital city ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A slum along the railway line in Nairobi’s Kibera area in this skyline photo taken on ...

At an academic conference in Mumbai last week, some of us were in two minds when the organizers proposed a tour of Dharavi, the largest slum in Mumbai, made famous by the film Slum Dog Millionaire.

These compelling photos provide a peek into Birmingham's history, revealing the grim reality of life in slum dwellings. Years ago, a substantial portion of the city's inhabitants resided in slums, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Hundreds of police and soldiers surrounded one of Rio's most dangerous slums after the end of a sunset deadline offered to drug gang members holed up inside, though officials late ...

Eugenios Close Up Inside the Slums of Buenos Aires A professional photographer seeks to infuse his Buenos Aires slum with art creativity and free expression As with so many of the marginalised shanty ...

Life at Mosquito village, a slum in Lagos state, is disgusting, brutal, weird, ephemeral, yet entertaining. The residents live in the cozy embrace of the filth surrounding them like the walls of ...

The carving out of Abuja as the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria 40 years ago which led to the development of the city, is now having an emerging slum problem, Sunday Isuwa reports. As a result of ...