Jamelle Agbuis

When a candidate is unsuccessful, an all too common practice is for HR to discard them without a second thought. And with good reason. Narrowing the candidate pool is a unenviable task and sheer time constraints preclude many in HR from going the extra step in personalising the notification.

In yet another wave of "truth in advertising" lawsuits, embattled Tropicana is now fending off approximately 20 lawsuits at once because of blatant truth-slanting labeling that misleads consumers to think that they are buying fresh, unadulterated, good-for-you OJ.

You might have heard that bike lanes are a waste of money. The Australian National Audit Office recently investigated the $40 million bike path scheme, announced in 2009 as part of the Federal Government's stimulus package, and found the scheme "fell significantly short" of hitting its aims.

Former Tasmania seamer Allister de Winter has been appointed Australia's bowling coach for the limited-overs tour of the United Kingdom, which will feature five ODIs against England and one against Ireland, later this year.

A UCLA rat study, published in May in the Journal of Physiology, suggests that a diet that maintains a high level of fructose for as little as six weeks slows the brain and hampers memory and learning.

The circus is coming to town. In a few weeks, Ringling Brothers will be arriving in Los Angeles with all its elephants and other caged animals. But this time they may be getting a muted welcome from the city council.

The skin is the body's largest organ. Like a sponge, it eats up and breaths in over half of whatever it comes in contact with. And, while it is true that unavoidable entities such as smoke and other pollutants may cause extreme harm to the appearance of our skin, it is also true that the products we slather on voluntarily may cause the same harm.

As world leaders prepare for the Rio+20 environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro, a United Nations report says that despite over 500 internationally agreed goals and objectives, the world continues to pursue an entirely unsustainable path.

What’s wrong with this country? While cities around the world are making plans to deal with climate change, cities in the United States are just sitting around like there’s no tomorrow. Which, at this rate, there won’t be.

Another extremely sad revelation following a decade of war - new Pentagon statistics are showing that the military is losing an average of one soldier per day not to combat in Afghanistan, but to suicide.

Creating a wildlife-friendly backyard, or even a balcony, is much easier than you think. Wildlife-friendly concepts can be applied to all types of garden, from huge plantations down to small high rise balconies, the two key elements are water and shelter everything else is a matter of personal preference.

Surfing the real estate listings this morning before breakfast, I was shocked to find that some premium agents violate their clients’ basic expectations of privacy.

Let's take a look at Australia's miracle economy. It grew 1.3% in the three months to March and expanded 4.3% over the past 12 months. The crowd's response was to buy the dollar and stocks, and ease up on predictions of further interest rate cuts.

Gold is "forever unproductive," says Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

After three years of house price falls, the Bulgarian housing market remains in the doldrums.

We are now in the work-from-home work culture, where businesses allow their employees to work from their homes on their beds wearing their pajamas and just go online for a certain period of time. In this article, we will tackle the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of work culture.

One of the top suspects behind killer vascular diseases is the victim of mistaken identity, according to researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, who used genetic tracing to help hunt down the real culprit.

Mothers who are vaccinated for certain diseases with vaccines that contain live viruses could pass on these viruses to their children through their breast milk.

We left you last week with the thought that the market looked very sick indeed. A crash, we said, wouldn't come as a surprise. Well Friday's action in the US wasn't quite a crash, but it wasn't far off either. And gold's reverse crash - up nearly US$80 in the US session - added to the fear.

Peru’s housing market has been sizzling hot the past two years, making a strong comeback in 2010. Not surprisingly, as there was 8.8% GDP growth in 2010, followed by 6.9% economic growth in 2011 (figures from Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP)).

Hold onto your hats. Grab your wallet. All over the world, central planners are getting together. They're watching the whole developed world tilt towards Tokyo. And they're determined to "do something" to stop it.

The world's housing markets moved clearly down during the year to the first quarter of 2012, according to the Global Property Guide's latest house price indices survey.

Starbucks, the coffee shop renowned for its seemingly limitless coffee varieties, is opening a new chain of juice bars in response to the growing health trend towards unprocessed and whole foods.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-A new University of Michigan study finds that overweight men and women responded differently to advertisements about the benefits from exercise.

Recent polls from the National Sleep Foundation show that most Americans are averaging just under seven hours of sleep on weeknights and seven and one-half hours on weekends. Yet sleep researcher Dr. William C. Dement, MD, claimed we live in a "sleep sick nation."

Vitamin C can curb the growth of cancer cells according to New Zealand scientists who provided hard evidence to the connection between the vitamin C and killing "the big C" (cancer).

After a stressful day at work, you come home, only to discover that Rover has raided the trash and left a disaster all over the kitchen floor.

20,000 Species at ‘High Risk’

The U.S. Senate and six separate states have launched inquiries into the practices of dental management firms, alleging that many such firms have cheated Medicaid by performing unnecessary and invasive procedures on poor children.