A QLD hair loss clinic has been forced to apologise to a man after refusing to treat him due to his being HIV positive.

He was told that the treatment could not be performed due to risk of needle stick injury, however the client believed this to be discrimination.

The resolution involved the clinic undergoing intensive training on blood borne diseases, writing an apology to the client and giving him financial compensation.

nstagram was briefly down for thousands of users worldwide, and naturally everyone took to Twitter to vent their frustrations with the hashtag #instagramdown.

The users of Instagram and Facebook were most affected across Europe, Australia and some parts of Asia.

Instagram has more than 1 billion active monthly users, many of whom missed out on their insta-fix this week

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.