Companies added more jobs than forecast in August, easing concern the world's largest economy is sliding back into a recession.

San Francisco’s $7.8 billion-a-year tourism industry, the city’s largest private-sector employer, is recovering along with the economy. The trouble is, tourists aren’t spending like they used to.

Saab AB is stepping up a campaign to sell its Gripen warplane in Asia and eastern Europe as Switzerland’s decision to delay a $1 billion fighter purchase threatens to curtail production of the 1,320 mile-per-hour jet.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP says the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico has been removed from the company's well.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A Canadian mining company will begin cleaning up a beach on Lake Roosevelt later this month in a show of good faith over efforts to deal with pollution that flowed for a century from a British Columbia smelter into the U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eager to jumpstart the economy ahead of crucial midterm elections, President Barack Obama said Friday he intends to unveil a new package of proposals, including tax cuts and targeted spending, to spark job growth.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has testified he took a $60 million loan against the value of the land around Dodger Stadium to pay mortgages on his estranged wife's six homes.

In November 2009, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd advanced a radical proposal: to create a super-regulator that would take over most of the bank supervision that had been done by the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and other agencies.

Samsung Electronics Co. and Toshiba Corp. unveiled tablet computers in Berlin Thursday, aiming to take market share from Apple Inc.’s iPad with their lower-priced “me-too” devices.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A disappointing earnings report and forecast sent shares of SeaChange International Inc. sharply lower Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. service sector, the nation's predominant job generator, expanded for the eighth straight month in August although the pace of growth slowed, according to a trade group survey.

TOKYO (AP) -- Japan approved fresh economic sanctions against Iran on Friday after the United Nations asked Tokyo to tighten restrictions against Tehran over its controversial nuclear enrichment program, an official said.

PARIS (AP) -- A Paris appeals court has upheld a counterfeiting conviction against eBay in a 2008 case brought by French luxury giant LVMH, but slashed the amount of damages the online retailer is ordered to pay.

MACHIAS, Maine (AP) -- A Maine farmer-owned organic milk company is going to keep producing milk after all.

CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) -- A weakening but still dangerous Hurricane Earl steamed toward the gray-shingled cottages and fishing villages of Cape Cod on Friday, disrupting people's vacations on the unofficial final weekend of the short New England summer.

CINCINNATI (AP) -- Fantasy football means real business for restaurants, and some big chains have launched promotional drives to score with dedicated players of the growing pastime.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unemployment is stuck at high levels even though some companies are hiring. The problem, government data show, is that too few jobs are being created for the growing number of people looking for work.

HADDONFIELD, N.J. (AP) -- During a summer of record-breaking heat through much of the U.S., the Campbell Soup Co. struggled to sell its cold weather-friendly soups, but got another boost from broth, a staple for home cooks.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market had its first winning week in a month thanks to better news on the economy.

NEW YORK (AP) -- THE APP: Available for the iPhone, mTrip is a travel guide and more. It uses the latest in smart phone technology to help travelers stay on track.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The new iPhone application mTrip is a travel guide and then some: It uses the latest in smart phone technology to make it easier to stay on track in a foreign locale.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Unlike the blast that led to the massive BP spill, the latest oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico killed no one and sent no crude gushing into the water.

LONDON (AP) -- Stocks pushed higher Friday after a relatively upbeat U.S. jobs report for August eased concerns about the pace of the economic recovery in the world's largest economy.

Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve didnít signal plans to expand its balance sheet with last month’s move to keep its holdings stable, and the U.S. economic recovery remains on a “gradual recovery track,” Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart said.

BEIJING (AP) -- Thousands of coal trucks and other vehicles were backed up for miles on a highway in northern China on Friday, the latest in a series of monster traffic jams that have plagued the overloaded road since construction began on a parallel route earlier this summer.

CERNOBBIO, Italy (AP) -- Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years after near-meltdown, with the U.S. looking sluggish, equity markets groggy and Europeans fighting a debt crisis, experts gathered in Italy offered a generally gloomy outlook -- especially for the United States and much of the industrialized world.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Oil prices fell below $75 a barrel Friday ahead of closely watched U.S. employment report that will inform traders about the strength of future energy demand from the No. 1 economy.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday approved Eastman Kodak Co.'s $21.4 million offer to settle class-action lawsuits by black employees who maintained white counterparts were favored over them for pay and promotion.

CERNOBBIO, Italy (AP) -- Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales believes relief may be in sight for the beleaguered news media industry.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- What now for the Gulf?

SEATTLE (AP) -- Dell Inc. doesn't have to start over in its quest to become a significant purveyor of technology for businesses after losing a multibillion dollar bidding contest for an obscure data-storage maker.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress seems increasingly reluctant to let taxes go up, even on wealthier Americans.

Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- About an hour south of Seoul, bulldozers are demolishing the last vacant factories at Samsung Electronics Co.ís Suwon campus, erasing signs that South Korea’s most valuable public company once made its headquarters in a smoke-fuming industrial complex.