The New York City Police Department is updating its rules to better address safety and medical concerns after a woman was forced to give birth in handcuffs.

New York state law prohibits shackling pregnant prisoners during labour and delivery, but police accompanying the woman left her in chains anyway.

New York City agreed to pay $610,000 US dollars to the mother who gave birth to a nearly 8 pound baby while being handcuffed on the bed.

Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp have faced an outage affecting videos and images on the social networking platforms.

Many users took to the rival platform of twitter to express their feelings about the issue.

A Facebook representative explained via statement  we're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.

Australian men are currently not allowed to donate blood for one year after a sexual encounter with another man but the latest review from Red Cross hopes to reduce this waiting period.

Ben Henry, a 26 year old with haemochromatosis, is one of many men hoping for rules to change as he has about half a litre of blood drawn every week to tackle the high iron levels caused by the disorder and is currently unable to donate it like many people with the same disorder usually do. 

Independent MP,  Andrew Wilkie and former senator Derryn Hinch claim some politicians are pocketing generous payments intended to fund travel and local electoral duties.

Federal politicians receive several payments in addition to their basic income, including an electorate allowance to help them conduct their day-to-day duties. 

A sunshine  Coast Chef Amber kaba  has started The White jacket Effect to empower hospitality workers with mental health tools to help themselves and their workmates.

Ms Kaba said she struggled with alcoholism herself but it was the recent suicide of a friend driving her to help address a mental helth crisis facing the hospitality industry.

China has told Britain to stay away from Hong Kong after the United Kingdom government called the Chinese government to honour the agreements made when the city was handed over in 1997.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned of consequences if China neglected its commitment to guarantee basic human rights.

This warning was denounced as shameless by the Chinese government who says Hong Kong is now returned to the Motherland and Britain should let go of colony mindset.

Navy Seal, Chief Edward Gallagher, has been acquitted of murder after a photo was taken of him posing with a dead corpse of an enemy fighter.

Chief Gallagher was sentenced to 4 months’ of confident by a military jury and at the start of the trial he faced a possibility of life in prison. 

President Donald Trump congratulated the chief via twitter and explained that he was glad that he could help.

The Federal Government is seeking advice on covering the cost of stillbirth autopsies in an attempt to prevent further deaths

Australia’s stillbirth rate has not dropped in two decades and the government is discussing the possibility of adding stillbirth autopsies as a new Medicare item, providing $4,000 per autopsy.

The funding could provide an answer for up to 50 per cent of cases involving stillbirth or congenital abnormalities leading to death. 

More than 500 workers at Blacktown City Council in Sydney have stopped work and have begun to strike after union officials claimed they were told that if they refused to use weedkiller they would be forced out of their jobs.

More than 10,000 bins were left uncollected yesterday and workers are meeting this morning to decide whether to continue the strike.