In this Sunday, March 16, 2014 photo, men walk in Kamagasaki, Osaka, western Japan. Japan’s biggest slum, Kamagasaki, is visible just blocks from bustling restaurants and shops in Osaka, the country’s ...
KATWE, Uganda (AP) — In a two-room shack in the heart of a Kampala slum, a barefoot 5-year-old boy is being taught how to move his pawns. He is one of scores of Ugandan children following in the ...
It was the closing ceremony of the Fifth Annual Slum Film Festival and Maxwell Odhiambo's film, the centerpiece of the night, wasn't there yet. "Did you finish it?" his mentor, George Stanley Nsamba, ...
LOS ANGELES/LONDON (Reuters) - The makers of "Slumdog Millionaire" have defended their treatment of child actors taken from the slums of Mumbai where the rags-to-riches tale, nominated for 10 Oscars, ...
“Slumdog Millionaire” was the big winner at the 14th annual Critics’ Choice awards, nabbing kudos for picture, director (Danny Boyle), writer (Simon Beaufoy), young actor/actress (Dev Patel) and ...