This boarded up home at 305 University Drive is slated to be demolished in the coming weeks. The family who owns the home also has the apartment building seen in the background and hopes a developer ...

CAIRO (Reuters) – Bayada Mohamed has left her old slum on a crumbling cliffside and moved into a new flat in a Cairo residential complex, making her among the first to benefit from a government plan ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – A police officer was shot and killed in a Rio de Janeiro hillside shantytown that’s become a symbol of the Olympic city’s showcase slum pacification program, the state’s public ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Hundreds of police and soldiers surrounded one of Rio's most dangerous slums after a sunset deadline offered to drug gang members holed up inside, though officials late Saturday did ...

MEXICO CITY — While most travelers flock to Mexico to sip margaritas on white-sand beaches, a hardy few choose lesser-known tourist sites where they are chased down by immigration agents or risk the ...