During his speech for the State of the City debate on Monday, Palma's mayor, Jaime Martínez, said the town hall has ...

A popular holiday hotspot, which is a big hit with Brits, is on the brink of collapse and residents are living in "shanty towns" as luxury accommodation dominates the area ...

A massive fire tore through a shanty town and left thousands homeless in the Philippines capital Manila. The blaze broke out in the slums of Isla Puting Bato - a squatter settlement that sits next ...

The government wants to remove all shanty towns Some 9.5 million people live in these so called informal settlements which have been built up around the former townships. The ministry of housing says ...

Welcome to Juju Valley, a shanty settlement in South Africa, where some 600 families live in neat rows of shacks built from corrugated iron sheets and tidy gardens. Juju Valley is a settlement on ...