poverty

In the Northwestern town of San Pedro Sula in Honduras, the morgue director Hector Hernandez says he's taken in the bodies of 42 dead children since February.

This practically perfect nanny is quitting her ill-paying job, but not before teaching the children a valuable lesson about the poverty line.

Lives aren't the only things lost when tragedy strikes.

Research on voter behavior sheds light on whether Brazil’s inglorious game could lead to political reckoning.

By normal measures of imperial China, Empress Wu Zetian did a pretty solid job. So why has she been impugned in history?

In Bolivia, children as young as 10 can now enter the workforce. How will the country's youth be affected by this decision?

In one northern Indian state, an estimated 90% of rape victims belong to the lowest caste.

Here's how one woman devised an insane scheme for a ticket out of dismal 18th century life.