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Lowes 1Q profit rises but results miss Street

Lowe's first-quarter net income rose almost 3 percent, even as a wet and cool spring dampened sales of gardening products.But the home improvement chain's quarterly performance missed Wall Street's expectations. Its shares dropped more than 4 percent in premarket trading Wednesday.Spring is the biggest season for home improvement retailers. While the weather was chilly in the ...
Mortar lands in Congo as UN chief arrives

GOMA, Congo -; A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo says that a mortar landed in a neighborhood of Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, which last year was briefly overrun by a rebel group. The explosion comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Congo's distant capital for a two-day visit that is expected to take him to ...
5 victims of Ill. van crash were from Baltimore

VANDALIA, Ill. -; Authorities have identified the five men killed when their Pennsylvania-bound van veered off a southern Illinois ...
Man sues manufacturer Philly shop over sex gel

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A competitive martial artist is suing a Philadelphia sex shop and the makers of a gel he says burned and scarred his genitals.The Philadelphia Daily News reports ...
I learned some tough lessons Anthony Weiner launches comeback with bid to become New York Mayor

Ex-congressman Anthony Weiner whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago said in a YouTube video announcement that he is running for mayor of New York City. He had said last month he was considering entering the ...

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Doctors in Poland performed life-saving face transplant to accident victim

WARSAW, Poland - Doctors in Poland say they have performed an urgent total face transplant on a 33-year-old man whose face was torn off in an accident which also crushed his jaws. Doctors at the Oncology Center in Gliwice said the 27-hour operation was performed May 15, just weeks after the accident. The head of the team of doctors, Adam Maciejewski, said it was the world's first ...
Lancaster police question release 2 in abduction

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) -- Police in Lancaster say two men brought in for questioning in the abduction of a woman who called 911 from the trunk of her car have been ...
Germany backs terror label for Hezbollah militants

BERLIN -; Germany says it supports adding the military wing of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah to the European Union's list of terrorist ...
Search for survivors winds down in Oklahoma

No survivors or bodies have been found in Moore since Monday, the day a mammoth tornado ripped through 17 miles of central Oklahoma and pummeled 2,400 ...
Tornado-ravaged Oklahoma residents start to pick up the pieces

A man carries a drawer and a bag filled with clothes from Rachel Hernandez' home as residents of the Heatherwood Addition, on the south side of SE 4 and Bryant in Moore, Okla., returned to their homes Tuesday, May 21, 2013, to salvage any items after Monday's destructive tornado. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel) MOORE, Okla. (AP) - With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin ...

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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. ...