Delegates to the annual World Toilet Summit in Northern Ireland's capital deliberate on crucial issues like anti-social activities in rest rooms, portable toilets, and amenities for the blind. Raymond Martin, director of the Irish Toilet Association, says delegates have launched a "Bog Standard Campaign" to advocate better toilets in UK schools. They have also inaugurated Belfast's first public UriLift toilet, a stainless steel urinal that rises hydraulically out of the ground to facilitate male users.

According to authorities, Mexican drug gangs south of the border are using tourist charter buses more and more to smuggle large amounts of marijuana into southern California. "We are seeing a sharp increase in the use of chartered buses to smuggle narcotics from Mexico, although we are not sure why," Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for ICE in San Diego, said on Thursday.

Danielle George - All Headline News Staff ReporterThe 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu.

A Kasas woman files a lawsuit against a Lake Saint Louis Denny's restaurant, claiming workers left cleaning fluid on a toilet seat, causing burns to her buttocks. The complaint says Kathleen Williams of Leavenworth County had to be taken to the hospital after sitting on the toilet in February 2002. While she didn't see the chemical cleaner on the seat, she did feel it burn as soon as she sat down.