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A four-day World Toilet Summit opens in the Indian capital Delhi with more than 40 countries participating.

Women seeking an abortion should not need approval from two doctors, a British parliamentary committee says.

Kucinich questioned the president’s mental health, CNN News reports here: “I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health," the Ohio congressman told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "There’s something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact."

Treatment with a derivative of vitamin A called retinoic acid may help to cut former smokers’ risk of lung cancer.

Targeted cleaning to tackle MRSA hotspots is key to reducing hospital infections, an expert says.

Fortune reports here at CNN Money: Americans have record credit-card debt and banks are starting to sweat an uptick in default rates, reports Fortune’s Peter Gumbel. Why some fear this could be the next subprime.

BBC News reports here: Brazil has been named as the host nation for the 2014 football World Cup.
The South American country was the only one bidding to host the tournament which was due to be staged on the continent under Fifa’s rotation system. Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said: "Soccer is more than a sport for us, it’s a national passion."

CNN reports here A Singaporean inventor shows how air conditioners can provide homes with hot water too. And here: For all the bad mouthing we dish out to the auto and manufacturing industries for the foul pollutants they force us to breathe, a wealth of evidence is suggesting that we should be looking a little closer to home for the other villains of global warming. It turns out that our homes gobble up 25 percent of the world’s energy and are to thank for 19 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions (that’s 4,400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or CO2), according to a recent McKinsey report, "Curbing Global Energy Demand: The Energy Productivity Opportunity."

Fortifying flour with folic acid to cut birth defects may lead to a range of health problems, warn scientists.