Iconic Brisbane landmark, the XXXX Brewery could be making up to 25 full time staff redundant.

This new round of layoffs are said to across a range of roles within the brewery and to equate to close to a sixth of the present workforce

According to a lion Spokesperson, the layoffs were made to remain competitive within the market due to a reduction of volume within the companies brewery network as well as a decline in the mainstream beer market in favor of craft beers.

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.