Rizwan Sajan, known for his lavish lifestyle on 'Dubai Bling', began his journey from humble beginnings in Mumbai. Facing ...

Florida Gators head coach Jon Sumrall opened up about accepting lousy pay and dangerous living conditions to get his start in ...

In the heart of Lagos lies Makoko - a vast floating community where thousands live, work, and cook entirely on water. From smoke-filled seafood kitchens to bustling boat markets, this is a place built ...

TVF (The Viral Fever), continuing its tradition of portraying the aspirations and struggles of middle-class student life, is gearing up for the release of its new web series Hello Bachhon. Set to ...

Betsy is the Senior Home and Features Editor at Southern Living. She writes about a veritable potpourri of topics for print and digital, from profiling Southern movers-and-shakers and celebrating ...

As you come into Kibera from Lang’ata Road, rusty grey iron roofing sheets spread out across the open land contrasting sharply with the red tiled houses behind you. Welcome to the land of the shanties ...

SOME people are upset by slums. They feel sick themselves when they find four or five children sharing a bed in a windowless room and realize that the tubercular cough of one youngster means the ...

Asma's father, Ajmol Mia, was not even married when he came to Dhaka from Noakhali back in the 1990s. While working as a newspaper hawker in Tejgaon, he got to know of a place where cheap food was ...

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 ...

In Kawangare, one of the many “informal settlements” – or slums – in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, Jane is often worried about the weather. The droughts and flood events that hit her neighbourhood are ...

An international study on container-based sanitation (CBS) systems has found that this portable toilet option significantly improves the quality of life for people living in urban slums in Kenya, Peru ...