A downtown Halifax salon introduces a new service geared toward Muslim women, offering female-only hairstyling days to protect the privacy of women who choose to cover their hair.

Some nail polishes commonly found in California salons and advertised as free of a so-called "toxic trio" of chemicals have high levels of agents linked to birth defects, state chemical regulators said Tuesday.

Dermatologists say the UV lights used to dry nails following some manicure treatments pose a potential skin cancer risk.