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 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 ...

Fifty years ago, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller defended the cost of the Empire State Plaza, telling a Senate hearing weighing his designation as President Gerald Ford's vice president that the government ...

Phiona Mutesi grew up in one of the worst slums in the world, her days spent searching for food and fearing for her life. One day when she was a 9 years old, she went looking for a meal and found what ...

A FIRE in a crowded slum in Bangladesh’s capital has destroyed or damaged 1,500 shanties, leaving thousands homeless, ...