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Four children and two adults killed in Pennsylvania house fire

Water service had been shut off two weeks before a tragic Mother's Day house fire took the lives of four children and two adults in the small town of Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Those killed in the May 12 fire have been identified as Eric Brown, 30 and his four children: Elijah, 2; Emily, 3; Jeremiah, 7; and Joy, age 8. Another adult, Kristina Thomas, 26, also died in the fire. Kristina was ...
Rockies end 10-game skid vs Giants with 10-9 win

Jordan Pacheco hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the fifth and Carlos Gonzalez added a solo homer, helping the Colorado Rockies hold on for a 10-9 win over San Francisco on Friday night that snapped a 10-game skid against the Giants.Pacheco laced his first homer of the season to left on a hanging slider from Madison Bumgarner (4-2), who failed to protect an early four-run lead.Jorge De La Rosa ...
Mariners downed by Indians Kipnis 6-3 in 10

Eric Wedge got the lefty-on-lefty matchup that he wanted in the 10th inning, but not the result.Jason Kipnis belted a two-out, three-run homer off Seattle reliever Lucas Luetge, giving the streaking Cleveland Indians a 6-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.Luetge (0-1) left an 0-1 slider over the plate, which fellow left-hander Kipnis hammered 365 feet over the wall in right ...
Orioles comes up short in 12-10 loss to Rays

Baltimore's hitters staged an improbable comeback Friday night.They just couldn't pull the Orioles all the way out of the big hole their pitchers put them in.Kelly Johnson hit a three-run homer and an RBI single and the Tampa Bay Rays held on for a 12-10 victory over slumping Baltimore on Friday night.The Orioles, who trailed 12-4 after six innings, surrendered a season-high 17 hits ...
Attorney General Kane No timetable for Sandusky case investigation

Kathleen Kane, a Democratic candidate for attorney general, talks during a forum at the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee Meeting at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on Friday, January 13, ...

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The Pianist

Roman Polanski survived the Holocaust when he was seven years old because his father cut a hole for him a barbed wire fence. He lived with various families over the years while his father spent four years in a concentration camp and his mother died in the gas chamber. Although he has insisted in interview after interview that his Palme d'Or-winning film The Pianist, about a young Jewish mu ... ...

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Adam Rosales go-ahead homer lifts As past Royals

Kansas City Royals' James Shields works against the Oakland Athletics in the first inning of a baseball game on Friday, May 17, 2013, in Oakland, ...
Freese hits slam Cardinals hold off Brewers 7-6

David Freese hit a grand slam for his first homer of the season, and the St. Louis Cardinals used a five-run first inning to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6 on Friday ...
Astros error in 9th puts Pirates in winners circle

Jimmy Paredes dropped Russell Martin's bases-loaded fly ball when he collided with second baseman Jake Elmore with two outs in the ninth inning, the second missed catch by a Houston right fielder, and the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied past the Astros 5-4 Friday ...
Walks errors hurt Dodgers in 8-5 loss to Braves

Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Paco Rodriguez (75) paces on the mound as an Atlanta Braves baserunner rounds third on a Justin Upton grand slam in the sixth inning of a baseball game Friday, May 17, 2013 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John ...
Blue Jays Buehrle loses to Yankees again 5-0

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Mark Buehrle delivers the ball to the New York Yankees during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Friday, May 17, 2013, at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Bill ...

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Pallam Raju to visit USA for dialogue on higher education

Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister M.M. Pallam Raju would be on a five-day visit to Washington DC, Philadelphia and Boston beginning on May 13 for dialogue on higher education.

"This a continuation of India-US higher education dialogue which was initiated in 2009 after the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's visit to the US during the same year, " Pallam Raju told the media here today.

This visit is the follow up of the Obama-Singh initiative taken on higher education. The focus of the visit would be on strengthening and enhancing higher education initiatives- 8 projects have been identified under this initiative. Strategic dialogue on higher education would take place. The visit will also cover school education and skill development sector.

Pallam Raju also discussed 'Connect to India' programme where US students will be coming and joining higher research institutes in India. The visit will also focus on exchange of faculty and development of faculty.

The Government has also initiated a scheme through University Grants Commission (UGC) to sponsor Indian researchers at the Post-Doctoral level and the first batch of 126 Indian scholars is ready to go to the US Institutions for post-doctoral research. ...