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Borrowing by small U.S. businesses rose in January from the prior year, data released by PayNet Inc on Tuesday showed, but fell compared to December, underscoring the recovery's slow slog. The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index, which measures the overall volume of financing to U.S. small businesses, rose 14 percent

Shares of General Motors (NYSE: GM), despite having delivered its first profitable year of operations since 2004.

One in four counties in the U.S. are ”dying” – meaning, they are recording more deaths than births – according to findings by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Anthony's departure doesn't spell doom for Denver

The report shows that while healthcare employment rose 6.3 percent, employment in other sectors fell by 6.8 percent cumulatively in the period from December 2007.

The fate of Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., a former Pennsylvania judge who has been charged with racketeering, fraud, money laundering, extortion, bribery and federal tax violations, lies in the hands of the 12-member jury, who began their deliberations Wednesday.

Shelly cheered the Modern Family cast along with Dillon.

It's a film about aging superheroes and he wants Eastwood, Beatty and Nicholson in it.

The star forward has yet to win a ring, but his services at least strengthen a team's playoff hopes.

A graduate of the prestigious University of Tokyo's economics department, Keishiro Kurabayashi could have joined a blue-chip firm and begun climbing the corporate ladder. Instead, he interned at DeNA, then a fledgling start-up and now a successful social networking and mobile gaming firm.

This year Valentine's Day is so special as NASA's Stardust spacecraft is preparing for final date with comet Tempel 1 on its second exploration. The world will be beginning to look at images when the spacecraft is on its closest approach to fly by comet Tempel 1 at about 11:37 pm EST on Monday, with confirmation likely to be received on Earth at about 11:56 pm EST.

Chairman Ben S. Bernanke testimony on The Economic Outlook and Monetary and Fiscal Policy Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. February 9, 2011

The Cleveland Cavaliers lost their 25th game in a row Monday night, breaking the previous record for most consecutive losses for an NBA team.

There aren't any cameras and you won't see Hollywood stars Juliet Binoche or Johnny Depp, but the confectionery is delicious and the story an informative real-life tale of Chocolat for aspiring EU member Croatia.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech to the National Press Club on Feb. 3, 2011

Housed within the Es Saadi Palace Spa in the Red City of Marrakech, the new Dior Institut is the first of its kind to open in a hotel outside France.

CNOOC Ltd will pay $1.3 billion in its second shale deal with America's Chesapeake Energy Corp , the latest move by China's top offshore oil producer in its aggressive drive for overseas acquisitions.

Wikileaks, by releasing damning cables from the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia, impacted the country's decision to revolt.

The number of elderly Japanese people committing acts of shoplifting has surged to an all-time high, a bizarre manifestation of the country’s economic stagnation, breakdown of social standards, and a rapidly aging population.

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the sovereign credit rating of Japan, the third-biggest economy in the world, to AA- from AA.

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to green technologies by vowing to flood America's highways with plug-in cars and will ask Congress for new programs to support sales and development of electric vehicles.