Back in March, we reported on the strange phenomenon of people scrambling to stockpile toilet paper as the coronavirus pandemic led to widespread adoption of shelter-in-place and social-distancing ...

Every year on November 19th, the world commemorates World Toilet Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about the global sanitation crisis and its impact on human health and well-being. Despite ...

Protesters brought brushes with them to a demo in Hamburg on Wednesday night. Photo: DPA A toilet brush has become the unlikely symbol of ongoing protests in Hamburg as the city was hit with another ...

It was billed as Berlin’s most eco-friendly public toilet, but for many the three-door wood-panelled hut is now the latest symbol of the German capital’s dysfunction. The toilet – including a pissoir ...

Toilets. You might take them for granted, but in much of the world, not only do people not have them, they don’t even want them. Watch this short movie about Jack Sim, who hopes to change that by ...

Muslims are calling for people to boycott M&S toilet tissue because it is allegedly embossed with the Arabic word for God. Footage taken by an unidentified man shows the Aloe Vera 3-ply toilet tissue ...

An androgynous toilet symbol has sent Twitter into a flurry, after users were unable to decide if the symbol was for men or women. The image, posted by British TV presenter Susanna Reid, shows a ...

The UK's official mapping agency has altered its symbol for toilets after many years. Will it make things clearer, asks Justin Parkinson. "I'm dying for the PC." It's not an expression one hears very ...

Marks & Spencer have been forced to deny claims that their toilet roll is embossed with the symbol of Allah. A viral video showed an unidentified man offering up ‘proof’ that the aloe vera toilet roll ...

Those familiar gendered washroom symbols could eventually become a thing of the past at community centres, swimming pools, and parks in Vancouver. Replacing them could be gender-neutral pictograms ...

Japan has brought us sushi, karaoke and with origami, even given us a new way to fold paper. Now it’s changing the way we go to the toilet. Experts estimate that tens of thousands of so-called “smart” ...

No matter how long you've been driving, every now and again you'll find yourself puzzled by some symbol or other, and one couple's hilarious story certainly shows you aren't alone. A married man was ...