The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits rose to a 2 1/2-year high, a sign the slowing economy hinders hiring.

One in five unemployed fails to seek for jobs that the Employment Service Bureau has assigned them to.

The latest unemployment figures are all over the web. The news is bad as according to the Labor Department the job loss is worst in the past five years.

Urban unemployment declined to 4 percent in China by the end of 2007 amid increased government efforts to improve people's livelihood, the labor ministry said Monday.

According to the data released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics the unemployment rate rose 5 percent in USA in December 2007 and average hourly earnings rose by 7 cents.

The number of furloughed workers claiming for unemployment insurance in the U.S. fell last week to the lowest level since Oct. 9, though wildfires increased the unemployment rolls in California, the Labor Department reported.

Jobless rate in Ireland increased to 4.8 percent for the last month that undermines people's confidence in the economy.

The European Union has announced it is planning to introduce a blue card for skilled immigrants, to fill 20 million job vacancies over the next 20 years.

Socioeconomic status, and unemployment rates in particular, predict both the type of trauma seen in emergency rooms and the population groups more likely to be victims of trauma, according to Atul Madan (1) from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and his team. Their findings have just been published online in Springer’s World Journal of Surgery.

The rate of unemployment in Egypt is ten times higher in the educated section of the population than among illiterates, independent newspaper Al-Masri al-Yawm said, citing an Arab labor report.

The scars created by domestic violence persist long after the bruises have healed, leaving some adolescent mothers psychologically distressed and increasing their chances of being unemployed, according to a new study.

Ali Ahmed is among teeming numbers of jobless with nothing to do but hang out in Baghdad's parks despite two years ago he earned his engineering degree. It is called living “the garden life”.