they're not. The pace of job losses quickened last month with the American economy shedding 467,000 jobs, as unemployment rose to its highest level in 26 years. (nytimes)
The Air France plane that crashed last month with 228 people aboard "did not break up or become destroyed in flight," the French air investigation agency announced Thursday. "The plane went straight down ... towards the surface of the water, very very fast," air accident investigator Alain Bouillard said. (cnn)