A Dallas-area policeman seen in a viral video tossing a teenage girl to the ground has resigned from the McKinney Police force, the city's police chief said, calling the actions indefensible. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12859
Rebels announced the capture of a strategic army base in southern Syria, the latest of several sweeping offensives by forces battling President Bashar al-Assad. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12865
South Korea's health ministry said two more people have died in its Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak and reported 13 new cases, bringing the total to 108. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12860
Stanford's Manu Prakash made a computer clock made of water droplets trapped in a magnetic field that may have biological/chemical applications, as well as change the way scientists think about computation. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12863
The American Medical Association, one of the largest and most influential associations of medical doctors in the country, endorsed putting an end to religious exemptions to immunization requirements. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12861
A federal appellate court upheld some of the toughest provisions of a Texas abortion law, putting about half of the state’s remaining abortion clinics at risk of shutting their doors. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12864
Syria said it broke into a US Army official web site to protest the training America is providing to Syrian rebels. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12847
Officials in 3 states are working with the CDC to find people who have come in contact with a woman being treated at the National Institutes of Health for a rare form of drug-resistant tuberculosis. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12862
Spotify has started its beta testing program for Android. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12851
Twitter has added conversation filtering. http://www.infobitt.com/b/12854
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