Melbourne, Nov 18 : Video games which allow teenagers to indulge in driving stunts are actually encouraging bad road behaviour in them, according to Aussie experts.

New South Wales acting Superintendent Dave Evans said that such videogames make adolescents think of themselves as invincible and many times the police is left with the responsibility to save P-platers from themselves.

The warnings supports experts and victims'' families’ opinion that the driver age limit should be at least 18.

The suggestion is followed by revelations that 104 P-platers are losing their licences each day.

Melbourne, Nov 18: The typical Aussie male who loves beer, barbecues and watching the footy are dying a slow death, for a new survey has shown a rise in the number of champagne-drinking metrosexuals more interested in hair products than their mates.

The shocking research was commissioned by Barons Brewing.

According to the study of 500 Australians, fathering and relationships had affected mateship –also 75 per cent surveyed said men were more likely to bring champagne and cheese to a barbecue than beer and meat.

"If the trends continue there''ll nothing but weak handshakes and pink frocks," the Daily Telegraph quoted Barons Brewing CEO Scott Garnett, a s saying.

Melbourne, Nov 18 : Kangaroos are genetically similar to humans, Australian researchers have said.

Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics (KanGO) have released the first detailed map of the kangaroo genome.

Genomes are the full set of genes and DNA in a species.

According to KanGO director Professor Jenny Graves, the historic research could help scientists understand how the genes worked and how humans evolved.

"Kangaroos are hugely informative about what we were like 150 million years ago,'''' News. com. au quoted Professor Graves, as saying.

Melbourne, Nov. 18: A cocktail party on Monday helped heal Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds strained friendship with teammate and vice-captain Michael Clarke.

A leadership group featuring Clarke sensationally sent Symonds home from a one-day series against Bangladesh in Darwin in September after he skipped a team meeting to go fishing. Symonds later admitted that he had gone on a drinking binge after last year’s hostile series against India and was prone to aggravated behavior.

Melbourne, Nov 18: It’s not just women who grumble about their body and looks, for young men too have body image issues, which range from physique, height and hair loss to penis size.

That’s the conclusion of a new research.

The study of 200 young heterosexual men, which has been published in the Journal of Health Psychology, found that it was so common for men to worry about their muscle definition (82 per cent did) that such concerns could be considered normal.

Melbourne, Nov. 17 : INFOSYS Technologies Australia chief executive officer Gary Ebeyan has decided to leave the company, and he will be replaced by Jackie Korhonen, vice -president, IBM Australia-New Zealand managed business process services.

She will begin her stint at Infosys'' today but will assume the CEO role on December 15.

Ebeyan will stay on in an advisory role until January 2009, the company said.