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At the AfricaSan Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced $42 million in grants to encourage innovation in the capture, storage and repurposing of waste as an energy resource.

Police say they would likely file second-degree assault charges if they catch the person who put industrial-strength glue on a public toilet seat at a Maryland WalMart, forcing emergency workers to rescue a man who was sitting in the wrong place at the wrong time, the Newark Post reports.

By its sixth hour sitting on a deserted tarmac, Continental Express Flight 2816 had taken on the smell of diapers and an overwhelmed lone toilet.

A US pilot avoids injury in a crash after his plane's fall is cushioned by a row of portable toilets.

Is a toilet an optional extra when you're at 30,000 feet? Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary seems to think so — as his no-frills carrier plumbs new depths by thinking of charging customers to use the aircraft loo.

A landlord was fined nearly $10,000 for removing the toilet and other fixtures from a basement apartment to get his tenant to move out.