New York's commuters are up in arms against the five-hour simultaneous closing of all 78 subway toilets from midnight to 5 a.m.

The New York Transit, through spokesman Charles Seaton, defended the new policy implemented the past few weeks, as its way of making the riding public more comfortable by setting exclusive window hours for its maintenance staff to clean the toilets.

Impatient passengers led to delays in rush hour subway traffic on Tuesday, causing a slowdown that lasted almost four hour.

The delay began when a packed subway train had to stop for an hour due to a malfunctioning train ahead. The passengers got anxious in the heat and stuffy atmosphere and left the train.

fter conducting an internal investigation, Shanghai's metro rail authority found out that their staff was responsible for proliferating the video of couple caught kissing on tape. A formal apology has been issued to the couple, who are now Youtube bred celebrities.

Based on the company's investigation, three staff members were found responsible for taping and uploading the video of the couple. Two of of the staffmembers have resigned already, while the other one has been dismissed.

Chinese couple caught on tape engaged in a torrid kiss is suing Shanghai Metro Co. for violation of privacy as their videotaped kissing engagement found its way to popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube.com.

The video was shot at the Youyi subway station sometime in September and has received many 'hits' (15,000 in a couple of days) on the Internet, embarrassing the young couple immensely. In fact, the man in the video has resigned from his job after receiving many phone calls and snide remarks from relatives, friends and strangers alike.

A man was arrested Sunday night for armed robbery at a local Subway sandwich shop.

The weapon the man was wielding was a hammer.