US and Iran faced off at the World Basketball Championships here on Wednesday night, electrifying Iranian fans and offering a rare opportunity for people of the two arch-enemy nations to meet face to face.
WASHINGTON: US unemployment jumped to 9.6 per cent in August, the Labour Department said yesterday, showing the recovering economy is still struggling to create jobs. In a keenly awaited unemployment report, the department said the economy lost 54,000 jobs last month, a better figure than the 120,000 loss expected by economists. Economists had predicted the unemployment rate would rise to 9.6 ...
