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 ...

Every year, extreme rainfall during the monsoon season, which begins in June and ends in September, results in approximately ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ronald Eligu, executive director of the Touch the Slum Charity Foundation, is transforming the lives of teen mothers and ...

The administration is also working with Statistics Indonesia (BPS) to continue mapping community unit (RW) areas that fall ...

Holding firmly at a cue-stick on his right hand, the young man bends over a table strewn with tiny but differently coloured and numbered. With undivided attention, he points the cue-stick at a white ...

Slum life did not stop Joseph Kimani Wairimu, 28, from achieving his dreams. Through his role in the movie Nairobi Half Life, he made history as the first Kenyan to win an award in the Durban ...

Rushdie -- perhaps the best-known author in Indian history -- slammed Oscar Best Picture winner "Slumdog Millionaire" this week, calling the film about Indian slum life "patently ridiculous." Rushdie ...

MUMBAI, (IANS) – Popular choreographer Ganesh Acharya, who has made the who’s who of Bollywood dance to his steps, recalled his rags to riches journey in the industry. The choreographer said that the ...

Carolina Maria de Jesus, a tall Negro woman with three illegitimate children, each by a different man, lived in a teeming favela (slum) in São Paulo. At dawn she queued up for water at a public spigot ...

Vivek Oberoi revealed how he signed his first film, Company, with Ram Gopal Varma and the intense preparations he undertook ...