A hill in Paraisopolis, Sao Paulo's second-largest favela, showcases the work of Estevao Silva da Conceicao, who has spent four decades building a unique castle that has earned him the nickname "the ...

Franco, who grew up in a Rio slum and was an outspoken critic of police brutality and of militia actions in poor neighbourhoods, was 38 at the time of her death. Get any of our free email ...

Spanish rescuers on Wednesday scrambled to save people trapped by surging tides of muddy water in floods that have killed at least 72 people in the country's east. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez ...

Cleveland Clinic is expanding its care in the Bahamas by adding a second in-country representative. Representatives connect patients to Cleveland Clinic care in the U.S., Canada, London and Abu ...

An apartment building dubbed the priciest slum in New York by its residents is filled with mold and rat droppings and has a rent of $4,000 (about Rs 3 lakh) per month. The residents have also ...

A rat-poop-filled Brooklyn apartment building has become the priciest slum in New York, residents claim. Multiple residents of the battered Bushwick site on Starr Street say they are paying nearly ...

Michelle Obama on Saturday aired her "genuine fear" that Donald Trump could retake the White House as the popular former first lady made a passionate appeal to voters in the desperately close US ...

The team set up a Forward Operating Base (FOB) in the area to enhance operations. Kenya police alongside officials from Bahamas, Belize and Jamaica have deployed their troops to Haiti to help in ...

POCATELLO — Police are investigating after a deceased homeless woman was found in a vehicle near a busy Pocatello intersection. Police said they were called to the parking lot of a business at ...

TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli jets struck multiple buildings in Lebanon’s southern coastal city of Tyre on Wednesday, sending up large clouds of black smoke, while Hezbollah confirmed that a ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Nearly 16 hours after an Israeli airstrike hit across the street from Beirut’s main public hospital, rescuers were still removing debris Tuesday from the overcrowded slum area.

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