U.S. Slashes Jobs, European Industry Slumps

January 8, 2009

Some 2.6 million Americans lost their jobs in 2008, the worst toll since the end of World War Two, data showed on Friday, and industrial output plunged across Europe as the global economic crisis bit deeper.

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