A view shows residential buildings and hotels in Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 16, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A worker stands next to an excavator as it removes stones flanking the national highway ahead of road widening, below houses once belonging to people who have since been moved out and received financial compensation, around 30km from Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 15, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Open-air cable cars, used to take tourists to the local ski slopes, pass by Auli, a hill station in Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 15, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A labourer carries a container belonging to Ganesh Devi Rawat, 68, who vacated her house after cracks developed inside the building, following rapid urban expansion, in Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 14, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Fractures line the wall of a house, that was vacated after cracks developed inside the building, in the Manohar Bagh area of Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 14, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A labourer carries a fridge belonging to Ganesh Devi Rawat, 68, who vacated her house after cracks developed inside the building, following rapid urban expansion, in Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 14, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Dawn breaks in the early morning in Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 14, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Ganesh Devi Rawat (4th-L), 68, helps a labourer move her belongings as she gets ready to leave her home, after cracks developed inside the building, following rapid local urban expansion, in the Manohar Bagh area of Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 14, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Rama Devi (R), 88, cries as one her neighbours, Ganesh Devi Rawat, 68, gets ready to vacate her home after cracks developed inside the building, following rapid urban expansion, in the Manohar Bagh area of Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 14, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A man works at a makeshift street shop in front of a placard, directed at the government's largest power producer, NTPC, which reads "NTPC Go Back", which had been put up by the local residents, in Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 14, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A Public Works Department (PWD) employee records the widening of cracks in a field next to residences marked unsafe to stay in, after cracks developed in the houses in the Manohar Bagh area of Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 14, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A crack lines the wall of 68-year-old Ganesh Devi Rawat's kitchen as she gets ready to vacate her home, after cracks developed inside the building, following rapid urban expansion, in the Manohar Bagh area of Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 14, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

An earthen pot used in Hindu rituals lies between the cracked and damaged walls of a house in the Singdhar area of Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 13, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Residents protest against NTPC, the government's largest power producer, at a local administrative building, after cracks developed inside their houses following rapid urban expansion, in Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 13, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Workers for the National Disaster Response Force demolish a hotel after cracks developed on the property, in Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 13, 2023. In January, cracks developed in more than 800 homes in Joshimath, 100 km from the border with China. Some houses crumbled completely, forcing hundreds of occupants to evacuate. Officials halted road construction work near the town, fearful of a bigger collapse. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Damaged walls crumble at a temple near a house in the Singdhar area of Joshimath, in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, January 13, 2023. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's push to carve roads and rail deep into the Himalayan mountains is smoothing the way for millions of Hindu and Sikh pilgrims to visit a clutch of religious sites that include the source of the Ganges river. The strategy has run into trouble, however, with some works halted by local authorities in the face of protests by residents after hundreds of houses were damaged by subsidence along the routes. The buildings and the land beneath houses had been weakened - geologists, residents and officials say - by rapid construction in the geologically unstable mountains. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis SEARCH "FADNAVIS HIMALAYAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

Yellow flowered vines crawl through empty window frames and up crumbling brick walls. Electricity poles are slanting along the road, cables hanging dead from their arms. The sign for Malakal's city council is riddled with bullet holes. South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and rebel groups may well have signed a peace agreement on Wednesday to end a civil war that has killed at least 50,000 people, but those who have fled the country's second largest city, a merchant hub turned ghost-town, are still fearful of going back. Violence flared up in the area in 2015. South Sudan had plunged into warfare in 2013, two years after independence from Sudan, when a political dispute between Kiir and then vice-president Riek Machar erupted into armed confrontation. In total, an estimated quarter of South Sudan's population of 12 million has been displaced and its economy, which heavily relies on crude oil production, ruined. REUTERS/Baz Ratner SEARCH "MALAKAL BAZ" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. 

Railway tracks are seen at a marshalling yard in Sotteville-Les-Rouen, near Rouen, France, April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer 

Empty railway tracks are seen at a marshalling yard in Sotteville-Les-Rouen, near Rouen, France, April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer 

Railway tracks are seen at a marshalling yard in Sotteville-Les-Rouen, near Rouen, France, April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer 

Empty railway tracks are seen at a marshalling yard in Sotteville-Les-Rouen, near Rouen, France, April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer 

Empty railway tracks are seen at a marshalling yard in Sotteville-Les-Rouen, near Rouen, France, April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer 

A rusting old petrol pump outside a long-closed rural village petrol station is seen on a minor road near Trowbridge, Britain, October 21, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY SEARCH "MELVILLE GAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Rusting old petrol pumps outside a long-closed rural village petrol station are seen on a minor road near Trowbridge, Britain, October 21, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY SEARCH "MELVILLE GAS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

A young migrant prays on a bench near a derelict customs warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, November 17, 2016. REUTERS/Marko Djurica SEARCH "MIGRANTS WAREHOUSE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

A makeshift military front loader drives in Dahiyat al-Assad, west Aleppo city, Syria October 28, 2016. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A burnt car is seen next to a section of the wall separating Mexico and the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico, October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A pothole is pictured on the street of Los Angeles, California February 12, 2016. Nearly two-thirds of Americans would support roadway user fees to help fix the country's crumbling transportation infrastructure, according to a survey to be published on April 28, 2016 that was seen by Reuters. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo 

Rush hour traffic is shown on Interstate 95 near downtown Miami, Florida November 5, 2015. Nearly two-thirds of Americans would support roadway user fees to help fix the country's crumbling transportation infrastructure, according to a survey to be published on April 28, 2016 that was seen by Reuters. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo 

Traffic moves through the rain along interstate 5 in Encinitas, California December 3, 2014. Nearly two-thirds of Americans would support roadway user fees to help fix the country's crumbling transportation infrastructure, according to a survey to be published on April 28, 2016 that was seen by Reuters. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo 

A bus stop sign is partially hidden within a tree that had grown around it in Lanton, southwestern France, April 26, 2016. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A rusty chain hangs in front of the quay of the small Luxembourg village of Schengen at the banks of the river Moselle January 27, 2016. The Schengen Agreement with the goal to eliminate internal border controls was signed on June 14, 1985 in the small village at the river Moselle and the tripoint of France, Germany and Luxembourg between the five countries of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. European Union interior ministers are to discuss extending temporary border controls in the passport-free Schengen zone to control migration flows, as well as identity document fraud following France's request to improve the detection of fake Syrian passports used by people trying to get into Europe. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay 

A volunteer distributes water bottles to commuters along a road during the intense hot weather in Karachi, Pakistan, June 24, 2015. A heat wave has killed nearly 800 people in Pakistan's financial hub of Karachi and piled pressure on a beleaguered provincial government, as rivals blame it for severe blackouts and crumbling public services that have added to the woe. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

A Ukrainian APC stands on the side of the road as other military vehicles leave an area around Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine near Artemivsk, February 18, 2015. Government forces started pulling out of a town in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday after a fierce assault by Russian-backed separatists which Europe said violated a crumbling ceasefire. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

A Ukrainian APC stands on the side of the road as other military vehicles leave an area around Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine near Artemivsk, February 18, 2015. Government forces started pulling out of a town in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday after a fierce assault by Russian-backed separatists which Europe said violated a crumbling ceasefire. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

Ukrainian servicemen pose for a picture on the road near Artemivsk after they left an area near Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine, February 18, 2015. Government forces started pulling out of a town in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday after a fierce assault by Russian-backed separatists which Europe said violated a crumbling ceasefire. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

A Ukrainian serviceman reacts on the road near Artemivsk after he left an area near Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine, February 18, 2015. Government forces started pulling out of a town in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday after a fierce assault by Russian-backed separatists which Europe said violated a crumbling ceasefire. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT)

Children play in the murky waters of an open drainage being repaired by workers in Manila September 8, 2014. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco (PHILIPPINES - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY POVERTY) 

Palestinians look at an unexploded Israeli shell that landed on the main road outside the town of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip August 1, 2014. Israeli shelling near the southern Gaza town of Rafah killed at least 40 people on Friday, the local hospital said, as a ceasefire that went into effect only hours earlier crumbled. Israel accused Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups of violating the U.S.- and U.N.-mediated truce, but did not elaborate, amid Israeli media reports that gunmen had fired at Israeli soldiers in the Rafah area. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Palestinians look at an unexploded Israeli shell that landed on the main road outside the town of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip August 1, 2014. Israeli shelling near the southern Gaza town of Rafah killed at least 40 people on Friday, the local hospital said, as a ceasefire that went into effect only hours earlier crumbled. Israel accused Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups of violating the U.S.- and U.N.-mediated truce, but did not elaborate, amid Israeli media reports that gunmen had fired at Israeli soldiers in the Rafah area. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Schoolchildren walk through an alley after attending private tuition at a slum in Mumbai July 16, 2014. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION POVERTY) 

U.S. President Barack Obama waves after speaking at Union Depot in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit here, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
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A Secret Service agent keeps watch as U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands as he arrives to speak at Union Depot in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS TRANSPORT EMPLOYMENT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Union Depot in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS TRANSPORT EMPLOYMENT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Union Depot in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TRANSPORT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Union Depot in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TRANSPORT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Union Depot in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Union Depot in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Union Depot in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Metro Transit Light Rail operations and maintenance facility in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Metro Transit Light Rail operations and maintenance facility in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Metro Transit Light Rail operations and maintenance facility in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama looks up from a ticket machine as he tours the Metro Transit Light Rail operations and maintenance facility in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Metro Transit Light Rail operations and maintenance facility in St. Paul, Minnesota February 26, 2014. During his visit, Obama proposed a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama steps from the limousine as he prepares to depart Joint Base Andrews aboard Air Force One in Washington February 26, 2014. Obama is flying to St. Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday to propose a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS TRANSPORT) 

U.S. President Barack Obama departs Joint Base Andrews in Washington February 26, 2014. Obama is flying to St. Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday to propose a four-year, $302 billion plan to create jobs by fixing the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, rail and transportation infrastructure.
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Antonio Acuna, 7, plays dress up with a wig and high heel shoes outside the factory where he lives with his family after the postponement of the demolition of their homes in Madrid November 7, 2013. Acuna belongs to one of the 13 families, all related, who are at risk of having their homes demolished by orders of Madrid's Town Hall. The families, whose members are mostly unemployed, have lived in a former paint factory as well as in shacks they built themselves for the past ten years. They say they have not been offered any housing alternatives by Madrid's Town Hall and they are evicted to make way for future plans to build a road on the land they occupy. The demolition of their homes was postponed at the last minute thanks to the Victims' Mortgage Platform (PAH). The graffiti reads, "Stop demolitions". REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY REAL ESTATE BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A car, loaded with household wares, drives up a bridge at the Orile-Iganmu district of Lagos August 29, 2013. With between 15 million and 21 million people - the upper estimate is the official one, though no one really knows - and generating a third of GDP for Africa's second biggest economy, Lagos has become almost as alluring to yield-hungry investors as it is to the 4,000 or so economic migrants who turn up each day. But it faces a daily challenge just trying to keep up with the pace of population growth, much of it on the edge of water. Nigeria, already pushing 170 million people, will be home to 400 million by 2050, making it the world's fourth most populous country, according to the global Population Reference Bureau (PRB). Lagos will have roughly doubled in size by then, Fashola and demographers agree. Picture taken August 29, 2013. To match Insight LAGOS-MEGACITY/ REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

A woman hangs clothes to dry in an area where old residential buildings are being demolished to make room for new skyscrapers in Shanghai September 9, 2013. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS) 

A man locks the door of his house as he speaks with his friend along the streets of Lalitpur August 1, 2013. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar (NEPAL - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)