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The widespread failure of all-metal hips may cost taxpayers, insurers and employers billions of dollars in the coming years.

The prospective failure of the deficit panel in Congress and bond auctions by fiscally shaky European governments could be a drag on markets.

Failure to contain the eurozone debt crisis has caused a sharp fall in confidence among senior business leaders, who fear the onset of another banking crisis.

Harry Markopolos describes himself as a "50 billion dollar failure." Why? Because he couldn't get anyone to listen when he figured out Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, eight years before Madoff's arrest.

The late Steve Jobs should be remembered for his failures as well as his successes.

College dropout. Fired tech executive. Unsuccessful businessman.

Insurance company Willis Limited has been fined A 6.895m for failing in its efforts to prevent bribery and corruption.

OPEC's failure to agree to boost production is not likely to impact prices much for a number of reasons. That's good news for drivers. 

The type of containment vessel used in the stricken reactors in Japan has long been thought susceptible to failure in an emergency.

It's bad enough when some social networking service like Facebook or Twitter goes down, but what we have here is a failure to communicate.

Skype went down on Wednesday, and at the time of this writing, it's only beginning to return to normal.