“Safe toilets for all by 2030” is one of the Sustainable Development Goal targets. But, with just more than five years to go until 2030, the United Nations says the world is “seriously off-track … 3.5 ...

Some 900 years ago, a group of Londoners shared a communal toilet designed to fit three users at once. Now, Esther Addley reports for the Guardian, the unusually well-preserved plank of relief is set ...