South Korea has sparked a gender row following its decision to print banknotes featuring the face of a woman who symbolizes motherhood in the country. The country's Central Bank has chosen to print the new 50,000 won note with the image of Shin Saimdang, the first woman to feature in the country's currency notes.

More than 40 countries attended the 1st World Toilet Summit in New Delhi, India. The four-day summit that kicked-off Wednesday brought to light the fact that at least 2. 6 billion people, or 40 pct. of the total world's population may have "roofs above their heads, but have no repository bowls below. "

Irish physician Dr. Brendan Kelly conducted a tongue-in-cheek study, the findings of which he published in the medical journal Lancet. Dr. Kelly randomly selected 20 medical romance novels and found that majority leaned towards "brilliant, tall, muscular, male doctors with chiselled features, working in emergency medicine" who were "commonly of Mediterranean origin and had personal tragedies in their pasts", according to The Associated Press (AP).

A traveling exhibition based on broken relationships has arrived in Berlin where it is proving to be popular. Aptly named The Museum of Broken Relationships, it asks people in each city it comes to, to donate memorabilia of their terminated relationships, from brief flings to long painful divorces.

A 15-year-old boy with dyslexia has set up own chocolate making factory to meet increased demand for his sweet creations. After being diagnosed with dyslexia dyspraxia, Louis Barnett left school at the age of 11 for home tutoring and in the process discovered a passion for chocolate making.