Australia

Oz teens adopting American accents

Melbourne, July 4 : More and more Australian teenagers are adopting American accents as a prestige model, says a linguistic expert.

Gas used to make TV screens more harmful to environment than coal

Melbourne, July 4 : The rising production of television sets may worsen global warming because a greenhouse gas used for the purpose is more harmful than coal, warns a leading environmental scienti

Topless sunbaking area Cairns beach ‘is here to stay’

Melbourne, July 4 : Esplanade Lagoon, the topless sunbaking area at a popular Cairns beach will stay, despite public fears that it might be attracting eve teasers into the city.

Australia crafts plan for carbon trading scheme

Sydney - Australia laid out plans Friday for a national scheme for carbon-emissions trading that it hopes will help slow climate change but not halt the national economy or hand a competitive adva

Brush your teeth for a successful love life!

Sydney, July 4 : No success in love life? Well, all you need to do in that case is be committed to oral hygiene, for bad breath may be what’s keeping the love of your life at bay.

Bosses tell sexually harassed men they’re lucky to be ogled!

Melbourne, July 3 : It’s not only women, who face sexual harassment at work places, men also have to go through the unwanted office vixenry.

A new survey from Australia has revealed that many men are sexually harassed by women at work but are afraid to complain to their bosses.

And if they complained the bosses were more likely to tell a man he was lucky to be ogled and hassled, according to Fiona Knowles, Aussie law firm Holding Redlich's senior associate.

According to study for a British employment law firm Peninsula, four out of five male workers agreed being harassed by a female colleague.

In the British study involving 2300 men, nearly two third of the subjects said that sexual banter was inappropriate at work.

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