Uniform

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."

Nine long months of school behind them, some 18 million students in Turkey have cast off their uniforms and are looking forward to a long summer holiday.

Military uniforms that can be worn throughout pregnancy are being sewn in Germany.

The order is part of the Bundeswehr's program as an employer to give equal opportunities to soldiers. This was announced by the Minister of Defense, Ursula von der Lynn.

A decision published Thursday by Deputy Environment Minister Sokratis Famelos will tog out Greece's forest rangers in new uniforms in a bid to boost their presence.