A federal judge has ordered the city to hand over the operations of its troubled jails on Rikers Island to an outside manager. In a decision Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain wrote ...

What is it like to live in Fumba Town, a model of timber housing in Zanzibar?“Imagine a carefree life for you and your children,” Sebastian Dietzold pitches to prospective buyers of homes there. He is ...