Nearly 90 percent of major U.S. cities had lower unemployment rates in December than the same month a year earlier, a reflection of stronger hiring nationwide. The Labor Department said Wednesday that unemployment rates fell in 329 cities last year. They rose in 37 cities and were unchanged in seven. The national unemployment rate fell in December to 8.5 percent ? the lowest level in nearly three years. Employers added 200,000 net jobs, the sixth straight month of solid hiring. Unemployment rates rose from November to December in a majority of U.S. cities. However monthly metro area unemployment data can…
JERUSALEM ? Hamas officials say a senior member of the Palestinian militant group has left Syria because of the government’s crackdown on an uprising there. Hamas officials said Sunday that Imad al-Alami could not guarantee his safety in Damascus and was expected to enter Gaza later in the day. Al-Alami, a member of Hamas’ politburo, is the highest ranking official to leave the group’s headquarters in Syria so far. In the past year they have come under pressure to leave Damascus, because of Syria’s deadly crackdown on the country’s uprising. The militant group rules Gaza but maintains its headquarters in…
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Disney’s alligator-centric Where’s My Water game made a bit of a splash when it launched in Apple’s App Store this past September, and not for the reasons you may be thinking of. Sure, it turned out to be a popular mobile pastime (it unseated Angry Birds from its perch atop the Top 25 list for three weeks), but there’s more to it than that. Swampy, the game’s reptilian hero, is the first original character that Disney has developed specifically for a mobile platform.