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- Beers on wheels; LOUTS TURN STOLEN CARAVAN INTO MOBILE DEN FOR BOOZING
- Irene Dixon, 56, who lives on Chirton Grange, said: "We couldn't believe our eyes. "We thought it had just been abandoned, but then one of them got out to go use the toilet. "I've never seen anything like it, they were making a racket. "I don't know how they all...
- Research articles 2008-10-23
- Getting poor to use toilets 'a major health conundrum'
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Some 1.2 billion people have no toilets and defecate outside, while aid workers find shame effective in getting them to use facilities once provided, experts meeting in Stockholm heard this week. Humanitarian organisations have for decades tried various ways -- be it new systems, pumps or...
- Research articles 2008-08-21
- Even in Europe, 20 million people without toilets: forum
- STOCKHOLM AFP — A surprising 20 million people in the European Union do not have access to decent toilets and suffer from a lack of hygiene, posing serious health risks, experts meeting at World Water Week in Stockholm said. "People think that in countries so bright, so rich, they...
- Research articles 2008-08-21
- Astronauts fix that darn toilet
- CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- To everybody's relief, astronauts fixed the toilet at the international space station on Wednesday and opened up a grand new science lab. The toilet problem had fast become the most pressing issue of the mission, so much so that a spare pump was rushed...
- Research articles 2008-06-05
- Relief in space: cosmonaut fixes faulty station toilet
- WASHINGTON AFP — A cosmonaut-turned-space plumber fixed the only toilet at the International Space Station on Wednesday, bringing relief at the orbiting outpost one week after it began to malfunction. While nine other astronauts worked on their own space projects, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko toiled away in the Russian Zvezda...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- Dodgy space loo could pull chain on mission: report
- MOSCOW AFP — Toilet troubles on the International Space Station ISS could force Russian cosmonauts to return to Earth early, a Russian official told Interfax news agency Tuesday. "It's true, we have a problem with the flushing system. This is a serious matter," warned Vladimir Solovyov, chief ground control...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- NASA packs new toilet parts on shuttle for ISS
- WASHINGTON AFP — NASA stowed replacement parts aboard the Discovery shuttle Thursday to be sent up to the International Space station to fix its broken Russian toilet, the US space agency said. After the main ISS toilet broke down Tuesday, forcing the three astronauts aboard to use the facility...
- Research articles 2008-05-29
- Doctor's mission: prevent disease after China quake
- DUJIANGYAN, China AFP — Xiao Jinsong is racing against time to rescue survivors of last week's massive earthquake in southwest China, but he is not searching amid the rubble. The doctor and his medical colleagues are trying to save those who escaped the quake alive but, officials say, now...
- Research articles 2008-05-18
- On tap in space: Urine will not go to waste
- WASHINGTON -- Astronauts living on the International Space Station soon will take recycling to new extremes: They'll get some of their drinking water from the toilet. NASA has spent decades perfecting a system to transform urine into water that can be used in space for drinking,...
- Research articles 2008-05-15
- New Yorker charged with murder over toilet dispute
- NEW YORK AFP — A New Yorker who was dragged from the rest room of a city nightclub by two men who accused him of taking too long on the toilet has been charged with a botched revenge killing, police said Tuesday. Luis Paulino, 47, was using the bathroom...
- Research articles 2008-03-25
- TAKING ON THE GIANTS
- ABC Tissue has successfully challenged the global players in the highly competitive Australian tissue market THE CHALLENGE OF competing in a mature market dominated by giant global producers failed to discourage Australia's ABC Tissue from building success in the tissue game down under, nor from planning its next...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Estonian opera-goer spends night locked in toilet
- TALLINN AFP — An 84-year-old music fan had no option but to spend a night at the Estonian National Opera after she ended up locked in a toilet, the prestigious Baltic venue said Thursday. The woman decided to take a comfort break before leaving the building at the end...
- Research articles 2008-01-17
- Japan's Abe says diarrhoea ruined premiership
- TOKYO AFP — Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe, once touted as the fresh young face who would usher in a new conservative era, has said he quit the post because of severe diarrhoea. "I have come to think that, so as to gain understanding on why I resigned,...
- Research articles 2008-01-11
- 2007 Ad
- It's the night of the 2007 Oscars and Allen Herskowitz's thoughts have turned to toilet paper. Herskowitz is neither a director, producer nor actor but a senior scientist for an environmental watchdog group responsible for the 100 percent-recycled toilet paper in the restrooms at the Kodak Theatre and the...
- Research articles 2007-12-24
- New Zealand toilet inventor flushes out worm worries
- WELLINGTON AFP — The New Zealand inventor of a worm-driven composting toilet has flushed away concerns from bureaucrats that the system traumatised the wriggly creatures, local media reported Sunday. Coll Bell, who built the "wormorator" as an alternative to septic tanks, was asked to get an expert's report on...
- Research articles 2007-12-15
- Man trapped in toilet for four days in Scotland: report
- LONDON AFP — A man spent four days trapped in a freezing public toilet in northeast Scotland after the door slammed shut behind him and the handles fell off, a report said Monday. Retired teacher David Leggat spent 16 hours of each day in pitch darkness, drinking ice cold...
- Research articles 2007-12-10
- WHO says poor hygiene costs hundreds of thousands of lives
- SEOUL AFP — A senior UN health official said Thursday that better sanitation and hygiene could save hundreds of thousands of children's lives a year at a cost equal to what Europe spends annually on ice cream. Shigeru Omi, World Health Organisation director for the Western Pacific, said 1.8...
- Research articles 2007-11-22
- Mr. Toilet's house opens in South Korea
- SEOUL AFP — A South Korean lawmaker and public hygiene activist on Sunday opened his 1.6 million dollar toilet-shaped showcase house designed to campaign for cleaner loos worldwide. The two-storey home, complete with a nameplate reading "Mr. Toilet's House", is now ready to be occupied, according to owner Sim...
- Research articles 2007-11-10
- Baker made staff pay for toilet visits
- VIENNA AFP — An Austrian baker who made his staff pay for the time they spent in the toilet has been forced to end the practice to avoid a court case, a lawyer said. The owner of the bakery in Eisenstadt, capital of Burgenland province, recorded toilet visits on...
- Research articles 2007-10-16
- Human waste can help save planet: Indian expert
- NEW DELHI AFP — A cheap system to recycle human waste into biogas and fertiliser may allow 2.6 billion people in the world access to toilets and reduce global warming, an Indian environmental expert said Tuesday. Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of the Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, said his group...
- Research articles 2007-10-16
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