Taiwan's version of a "super toilet," which uses even less water for flushing than regular water-saving toilets, will hit U. S. stores early next year. The super toilet developed by Chen Wei-lung, an assistant professor at Chaoyang University of Technology's Department of Industrial Design, with help from the local industry, can flush 99 percent of 100 resin balls with only four liters of water during tests. The industry standard is 95 percent flushing efficiency.

Thorough examinations confirmed that three newborn Sumatran tiger cubs born at the San Francisco Zoo are in good health. The cubs, all male, were given a clean bill of health, with zoo veterinarians giving praise to their mother, 230-pound Leanne, for keeping the newborns well fed.

Police responding to a call from a Ness County man's home arrived to discover the homeowner's girlfriend sitting on the toilet, and had been on it for two years. Authorities said the woman, 35 years old, was on the toilet fully clothed, with her pants down to mid-thigh.

Without a reservoir dedicated to supplying the expanding Atlanta, Georgia-area with water, residents face shortages. The situation has caused Georgia lawmakers to claim an 1818 survey setting the boundary with Tennessee was faulty. Now Georgia wants to move the state lines to lay claim on the Tennessee River. A resolution to challenge the 1818 survey easily passed the Republican-controlled Georgia Senate and House, but Tennessee lawmakers say they won't cooperate with the effort.

Teachers and officials at a coed British school were shocked to see a class with an all-boy attendance on the first day of school. For the first time since it opened 30 years ago Bassetts Farm, a primary school with a population equally split between girls and boys, suddenly had a class of 20 4-year old boys, an occurrence that is still puzzling people.