Residents in Murfreesboro may soon be prevented from reclining on their sofas outdoors, if the city officials have their way. The council has approved a proposed ban preventing people from using their inside furniture outdoors.

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.

Collectors who wants a piece of history will be given an opportunity to own a big piece of Eiffel Towel stairway on November 19 when the Paris' Drouot auction house place the 4. 5 meter-high segment of the stairway under the hammer. In a statement, the auction house expects the 15-foot segment, which weighs at least 1,540 lbs to fetch between $21,000 to $28,000.

Nobel Prize winning author Doris Lessing has said that the 9/11 attacks were not as bad as the reign of terror waged by the IRA on mainland Britain. The Associated Press (AP) reports Lessing, in conversation with the leading Spanish daily El Pais, as saying "September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. "

A judge on Monday ruled that the businessman who admired Margaret Thatcher so much leaving his millions to her Conservative Party was not of sound mind when he made the bequest. According to High Court judge Launcelot Henderson Branislav Kostic was mentally ill when he left the party more than USD16. 3 million, considered as one of the largest individual political donations in British history.