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Australia's national airline announced on June 9 that it will scrap its gender-based uniform guidelines, allowing male cabin crew to wear make-up and giving women the option to ditch high heels.

Qantas said it had overhauled its guidelines to better reflect modern expectations, and to make uniforms more comfortable for staff from "diverse cultural backgrounds."

Montenegro's Defence Ministry is planning to tighten up the dress code for serving soldiers, worried by the lax appearance of the military.

Under the new military code, which BIRN has seen, soldiers will no longer be allowed to smoke in public places, use umbrellas and "carry bags or other items" while in uniform.

The International World Beard and Moustache Championships are underway in the little village of Leogang in Austria. More than 350 contestants from 20 countries are there to vy for an international placing.

For over a year, and more in some cases, the contestants have groomed and pruned their spectacular beards and moustaches as though they were works of art.

Turkey's bureaucrats have never been known as paragons of fashion and style, but the army of (mostly) men that constitute the country's civil service are loudly sporting Summer 2015's hottest new look: almond moustache-free facial hair.

Authorities have detained an obscure Chinese artist after he posted online a humorous portrait of President Xi Jinping, his wife said May 28.

Judy Zhu said police accused her husband, Dai Jianyong, of "creating a disturbance" after detaining him Tuesday near their Shanghai home.