Melbourne, Sept 18 : A new survey has found that over 40 percent of law students suffer from depression, with little improvement in sight when they become barristers and solicitors.

According to the study, almost a third of solicitors and one-in-five barristers suffer psychological distress associated with disability.

Professor Ian Hickie, from the Brain and Mind Research Institute in New South Wales (NSW), said that the survey of 738 students, 924 solicitors and 751 barristers supported earlier findings that consistently ranked lawyers first in surveys of depression.

Melbourne, Sept 18 : Wondering what makes vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin look so fabulous as she drives the Republic effort to make John McCain US President? Well the reason is – her secret team of stylists.

According to the New York Post''s Page Six, the Alaska governor has a secretive circle of stylists who dress her for events.

Melbourne, September 17 : Olympic gold-winning Aussie rower James Tomkins criticised athletes who did not show up at the city parade in Melbourne on Wednesday, including swimmer Stephanie Rice who was relaxing in Thailand on holiday.

"I''m disappointed they''re not here. It would have been nice certainly for all the fans to see them," the Herald Sun quoted him as saying.

"It is a little bit disappointing, but we can''t hold them to ransom over it," he added.

The newspaper report said that Libby Trickett and Eamon Sullivan were other high profile non-attendees.

About 5000 flag-waving fans lined the city streets today to welcome 51 of Australia''s Olympic medallists.

Melbourne, Sept 17 : An increasing number of women in generation Y age group have become a victim of chlamydia, a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that can cause infertility, according to a sexual health researcher, who describes it as a "little epidemic".

Researcher and lecturer Dr Melissa Kang said the rates of chlamydia infections have significantly increased in the Gen Ys over the past decade.

The cases of chlamydia has quadrupled from 1999 to 2007 and the most affected were young women aged 20 to 24

The cases increased from 335 per 100,000 people in 1999, to 1300 per 100,000 people in 2007.

Women and girls aged between 15 and 19 had the second highest rate and young men aged 20 to 24 the third.

Melbourne, Sept 17 : Nicole Kidman has signed on to produce and star in a new film ‘The Eighth Wonder’, it has emerged.

The action-adventure film is about an archaeological discovery that sets off a race around the world.

The flick has been picked up by 20th Century Fox from screenwriter Simon Kinberg, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Kinberg is due to start work on the script for the treasure-hunt thriller shortly, which will be produced by Kidman and Laurence Mark, reports News. com. au.

Kidman and Kinberg first met while working on Mr and Mrs Smith, which Kidman was due to star in before having to drop out for scheduling reasons.

Melbourne, Sept 17 : Consuming alcohol can be good for your heart, but you have to be a lazy smoker with an aversion to fruit and vegetables to reap the full benefits, suggests a Brit researcher.

UK’s leading researcher on the link between health and behaviour, the Australian expatriate Michael Marmot, found that smokers with the worst diets and poorest exercise habits could consume as many as 14 standard drinks a week, and still cut the risk of having a heart attack, stroke or other form of cardiovascular disease.

Greater quantities were less beneficial, though still better for those people than being teetotal.