About a sixth of the world's population — nearly 1 billion people — live in slums, and that number could double by 2030 if developed nations don't reverse course and start giving the issue ...

And he has a good reason. He was born in a rough slum outside Rio de Janeiro, but from there took a long journey that landed him in Croatia's national team and a showdown against his country of ...

Whatever the local name for slums, there are a lot of them and they are growing fast. A new report, “The Challenge of Slums” by UN-Habitat, the United Nations agency responsible for “human ...