Isaac Larian came to America at the age of 17 with no money and nowhere to go. Today, he runs billion-dollar toy company MGA Entertainment.

An Iranian man known as the "vampire of the desert" was facing the death sentence yesterday following the gruesome murders of 17 children and three adults in the slums of Pakdasht, near the ...

Iranian MP and member of the parliament Social Commission Alireza Mahjoub said that Iran’s slum population has increased 17 times since 30 years ago.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a U.S. foe, toured shantytowns with Nicaragua's leftist President Daniel Ortega on Sunday and said the two countries share common interests and enemies.

A new report released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that approximately 29.5% of Ghana’s population, ...

Iran’s intelligence chief and other key senior officials have been killed in an Israeli airstrike — further decimating Tehran’s military leadership, according to the IDF.

Iran has warned it will ramp up its nuclear activities after the United Nations nuclear watchdog’s 35-member board of governors adopted a resolution Thursday declaring it in breach of its non ...

The first phase of the attack did not hit the most likely repository of Iran’s near-bomb-grade nuclear fuel.

Iran’s nuclear industry is well-established, with important centers spread over the country, and some buried deep underground, to protect from the kind of aerial attack Israel has just launched.

Police use water cannons to disperse protesters during the 1990 "Saba Saba" democracy protests in Nairobi's Kangemi slum, ...

In the slums of Manila, inequality is so bad that the worst off have no chance to protest Independent filmmaker Paul Roy recounts his experiences in the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.