| Obama names outside economic experts to advisory panel February 7, 2009 at 3:00 am |
| Soaring jobless rate adds urgency to task of new board of leaders from academia, business and labor.
President Barack Obama today named a panel of outside experts from academia, business and labor to advise him on the economy as he continued to press the Senate to move on his economic stimulus package. 
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| U.S. unemployment rate at 7.6%; jobs disappearing at faster pace February 6, 2009 at 12:15 pm |
| In January, 598,000 jobs are lost. Since the recession began in December 2007, the economy has shed 3.6 million jobs, half of them in the last three months, the Labor Department says.
The economy appears to be in a free fall, with jobs disappearing at an accelerating rate and the unemployment rate already reaching 7.6% -- worse than most economists had expected. 
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| A.Q. Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist, freed by Pakistan court February 6, 2009 at 9:55 am |
| Khan admitted in 2004 to providing sensitive nuclear technology to rogue regimes. 'I will always be proud of what I did for Pakistan,' he says after being freed from house arrest.
Reporting from Istanbul, Turkey, and Islamabad, Pakistan -- A Pakistani court today freed nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan from unofficial house arrest, capping a rehabilitation that began almost from the moment he confessed in 2004 to providing sensitive nuclear technology to rogue regimes around the world. 
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