Employers slashed 598,000 more jobs in January as unemployment rate climbed to 7.6%.

Dan Arnall of the ABC News Business Unit tells us the bad news: the Bureau of Labor Statistics says the nation’s employers cut 598,000 workers from their payrolls during January, with significant downward revision to previous months. This is the worst month of jobs loss since December 1974 (-602K).
Since the jobs loss started in January 2008, the nation has seen more than 3.2 million jobs vanish into the black hole that is the current recession. The number is …

January could be the Army’s worst month for suicides since record-keeping started in 1980. The service announced Thursday that 24 soldiers may have killed themselves last month.
Seven suicides have been confirmed, the Army said, and 17 are suspected. If all are confirmed, it means that more than twice as many soldiers died by their own hand last month than were killed in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ten soldiers died in combat last month.
 
The suicides included a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the second suicide at …

No breasts, no need for breast cancer tests. Right? As a man, I’ll admit that’s been my assumption—even though breast cancer struck my mom when she was 39. But I’m one of many men who might need to reconsider that philosophy in light of intriguing new research published this month. Men whose female relatives have had breast cancer, it suggests, may want to consider genetic testing to evaluate their own—and their children’s—cancer risk.
Mary Daly, the founder of the Family Risk Assessment Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, presented the research …

Symptoms 
Pancreatic cancer often develops without early symptoms. The majority of pancreatic cancer symptoms arise because of the location of the pancreas and its relationship to other organs in the body. (It is surrounded by various organs of the digestive system.)
Symptoms of pancreas cancer are:
Jaundice—Jaundice is a condition in which a person’s skin or whites of the eyes have a yellow discoloration. A person with jaundice may also have dark urine and light stool. Jaundice occurs when bilirubin, a substance produced by the liver, builds up in the blood. Normally, bilirubin …

 
Reports from Somalia say pirates holding a Ukrainian ship loaded with weapons have received a ransom and are preparing to free the vessel.
The pirates seized the Kenya-bound MV Faina and its crew in September 2008.
It is the highest profile vessel in pirate custody, and there has been controversy over its cargo.
The Kenyan government says the tanks, rocket launchers and small arms are theirs, but the manifest suggests the arms were intended for South Sudan.
‘Counting the haul’
Gunmen took control of the MV Faina and its crew of 20 on 24 September …