The USA has announced that they are withdrawing from a 1955 treaty with Iran.

This has come only hours after the United Nations advised the US the ease sanctions against Tehran.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that this is happening 39 years too late, referring to the date of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The UN court ordered the US to lift sanctions linked to humanitarian goods and civil aviation.

An Al Jazeera investigation reveals unreported corruption in the Baltimore police that has gone unreported for 10 years.

A corrupt unit of plain clothes police officers in Baltimore managed to get away with stealing and impunity for over a decade before being revealed.

In the years since the Baltimore protests erupted and showed the fault line between Baltimore police and its community an investigation into police corruption has been launched, after it emerged that an elite plain clothes unit doubled as a crime syndicate.

Recently, 380 transgender women participated in an Australian study on the genetic basis behind gender dysphoria.

Researchers compared the DNA of transgender women to cis gender men and found four significant differences.

Four genes involved in processing sex hormones were much greater in number in the transgender women, suggesting that there’s a genetic component in who is and isn’t transgender.

The story of Luke and Leon began in 2016 when Luke pulled over to give hitchhiker, Leon, a lift.

Luke was heading into town to meet with a friend over his latest record, and gave a copy of the CD to Leon as a gift of thanks.

Luke was diagnosed with terminal cirrhosis of the liver, and with the help of charitable donations and Luke’s support in getting his music out onto the world wide web, Leon is still recording and releasing music for his fans.

The influx of illegal prostitution within massage parlours is beginning to hurt the wallets of licenced Queensland brothels.

The Prostitution Licensing Authority in their recent annual report has stated that whilst there exists legitimate remedial and therapeutic massage clinics, many are being used as a front for illegal prostitution which must addressed.

Thousands of Queensland public servants have been pinged for poor performance or behaviour in the last year

A state government report has revealed 3469 work performance complaints were received this year as opposed to 2866 in the previous year

however , this only represents 1.7 per cent of the full time Queensland Public Sector, a percentile which has fluctuated from 1.4 to 1.7 per cent in the past 3 years,

The aftermath of Indonesia’s twin earthquake and tsunami disaster is proving catastrophic, as the victim count rises to over 1400.

More than 70,000 people have been displaced from their homes due to the disasters and thousands are injured.

Food, water and medical aid are still slow to reach to worst affected areas due to lack of access, and the UN has warned of the “vast” unmet needs in these areas.

225 million American Mobile Phones - about 75% of the phones in the country, today received a test “presidential alert” message.

The test message came with a loud tone and vibration, and the screen read “this is a test of the national emergency alert system. No action is required.”

This is the first national test of the wireless system that will be used in future to communicate with the American public about disasters and safety threats.