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In a country with not enough toilets, manual scavengers are paid $5 a day to scoop human waste. And it's not just in remote towns around India, it's in major cities, including Mumbai.

New York's Ellis Island hospital complex, where immigrants to New York were stopped and checked for disease, is now open to the public for tours.

Seattle-based Falah Capital is preparing to launch an Islamic exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks large U.S. stocks, the latest sharia-compliant product in a market that has yet to fully embrace such low-cost investment tools.

Seattle-based Falah Capital is preparing to launch an Islamic exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks large U.S. stocks, the latest sharia-compliant product in a market that has yet to fully embrace such low-cost investment tools.

Seattle-based Falah Capital is preparing to launch an Islamic exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks large U.S. stocks, the latest sharia-compliant product in a market that has yet to fully embrace such low-cost investment tools.

For the business traveler who doesn't have time to take a side-trip, an hour or two by the pool at one of these city hotels will make you feel like you're on a holiday retreat.