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In the most impressive surge for the job market since the middle of last decade, the United States added 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists expected.

The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.

Wheldon, winner of the Indianapolis 500 in May, died after his car was sent airborne, hit the safety fence and burst into flames during the Las Vegas 300 event.

Skype burst onto the scene with considerable buzz in 2003. It was one of the first companies to allow calls over the Internet — and thus forever change the way people make calls.

Consumers gobbled it up. However, large businesses were tougher customers to crack.

Home prices rose in June for the third straight month amid a burst of home-buying due to tax incentives that have since expired.

The nation's payroll grew by 431,000 last month, completely reflecting a burst of temporary census hiring by the government.

Private payrolls grew at the slowest pace since the start of the year.

After a series of new products have altered the technology landscape in recent years, companies at the Mobile World Congress are making smaller changes.

A holdout no more, Democratic Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson agreed Saturday to provide the 60th and deciding vote for Senate passage of sweeping health care legislation, capping a year of struggle and a final burst of deadline bargaining.

The company’s quarter was led by sales of Macintosh computers and a burst in iPhone purchases, after the introduction of the new3GS.

Washington is paying hundreds of millions of dollars to build new, cleaner-burning buses, but don't scour the want ads looking for a burst of job openings soon at major manufacturers or suppliers.