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Programs already plagued by delays and poor participation were not designed to fully address unemployment, now the primary cause of foreclosures.
Yemenis celebrated after the embattled president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, went to Saudi Arabia for urgent medical treatment.
Israeli forces fired at protesters on the Syrian frontier after protesters tried to breach the border for the second time in three weeks. A Syrian news agency reported 22 killed.
Two drugs can prolong the lives of people with advanced melanoma in what researchers call notable progress.
President Obama’s national security team is pondering greater troop reductions, with some officials saying the rising cost of the war and the death of Osama bin Laden justify a change.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 1, 2011, covering June 5, 2011.
Adele
Seether
Various Artists
Jason Aldean
Mumford & Sons
2011Azam Khan, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter (born 1950)[†]
Mahbubul Haque Khan, known as Azam Khan, was a Bangladeshi singer-songwriter, record producer, and lead singer for the pop-rock band Uccharon. He was also a freedom fighter who took part in the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. He is considered to be one of the greatest artists in the history of Bangladeshi folk music and a founding figure of Bangla rock.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]