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Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff announced that he has ordered his company to reduce travel and sales programs in the US state of Indiana in protest over their religious freedom law recently passed. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10570

Scientists urge human embryo modifications must be halted, citing the risks associated with unforeseen consequences of those modifications getting passed on to future generations. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10591

Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and their allies have launched an attack against Shia Muslim rebels fighting to oust Yemen's president. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10555

NASA has announced a plan to put a rock from an asteroid in orbit around the moon. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10577

A French prosecutor has said the co-pilot of the Germanwings flight deliberately crashed the plane. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10557

A team of scientists has discovered that shelves in the West Antarctic are shrinking a lot faster than they realized. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10580

The first HIV clinic in a rural, midwestern community grappling with an abrupt HIV epidemic is set to open in Austin, Indiana — the outbreak's apparent epicenter. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10583

John F. Nash Jr. (of "A Beautiful Mind" fame) and Louis Nirenberg have been awarded the Abel Prize for lifetime achievement in mathematical research. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10593

NCAA president Mark Emmert said that the governing body for college sports is concerned about an Indiana law that could allow businesses to discriminate against gay people. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10585

Author Bill Browder's "Red Notice", which recounts events of tax fraud and murder in Russia, is getting international political attention after being a best-seller for six straight weeks. http://www.infobitt.com/b/10589

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