From Iraq to Ukraine, New Zealander Jessa Pontevedra has put herself in harm's way to help others. She’s now fighting a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as ...

MANILA, Philippines -- The ghetto called Aroma reeks of putrefying trash collected by its residents for recycling. Half-naked children with grimy faces play on muddy dirt roads lined by crumbling ...

As many as 15,000 people are homeless after a huge fire engulfed an overcrowded slum in Manila, destroying thousands of homes and sending residents fleeing with their few possessions. The inferno ...

Thousands of people made homeless after a spectacular fire ripped through a crowded shantytown in the Philippine capital, Manila, queued for food on Monday as they pondered how to rebuild their lives.

MORE THAN half of the world’s slum population lives in Asia and the Pacific—including the Philippines—a new regional report showed on Tuesday. According to a study jointly published by the UN Economic ...

THREE hundred homes were destroyed in a fire that tore through a slum in Manila, forcing residents to make dramatic escapes. A bare-chested man with a cigarette in his mouth, a Jesus statue in one ...

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(CNN) — A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours. Drone footage from ...