Stop the sprawl, teach slum dwellers to build skywards - leading Pakistani architect
Rapid urban growth means cities must try new approaches, including helping slum dwellers to build high-rise blocks
Demolitions of Lagos waterfront communities could leave 300,000 homeless - campaigners
More than 30,000 residents of a waterfront community in Lagos are homeless after a state-ordered eviction - but the number could soon be ten times that, say campaigners
Locked out by sky-high rents, London's 'nomads' fight for a secure home
Across global cities, low-income families routinely leave jobs and schools to shuttle between government-provided homes, with rental costs out of reach
Iraqis are world's most generous to strangers - global survey
More than half of people in 140 countries surveyed had helped strangers - with the most generous in countries hit by disaster and war
More than half of UK girls sexually harassed in school - report
Teachers often accept sexual harassment as "just banter", while nearly three-quarters of 16-18 year old students heard terms such as "slut" used towards girls on a regular basis
"What they took with them": Cate Blanchett in plea for refugees ahead of summit
Launched by the U.N. refugee agency, the film shows Hollywood actors performing a poem listing items refugees took with them as they fled into exile
After Boko Haram, Nigerians return home to perilous northeast - U.N.
Families will return to find their homes and farmland destroyed, with basic services wiped out, says the United Nations
UK abandons plans to privatise Land Registry - government source
Proposals to privatise the record were announced by former finance minister George Osborne in November as part of a 5 billion pound programme of sales
UK plan to make social housing tenants "pay to stay" won't meet aims - report
Social housing campaign groups say the new housing laws will price many tenants out of London, dramatically altering the social fabric of a city renowned for its diversity
After dam victory, Brazil's Munduruku chief appeals for global support over land
The Munduruku have defeated a $9 billion mega-dam project, but are still fighting for formal recognition of their rights to land