OBAMA: LATEST JOBLESS REPORT

US President Barack Obama is under a huge challenge,facing the highest rate of unemployment which is about 5 million in total (under his term), since 1983, said the US Labor Department.

BADEN-BADEN, Germany (AP) -- President Barack Obama says a new report on unemployment in the United States is a "stark reminder" of the global challenges created by the economic crisis.
Obama spoke about the U.S. jobless picture from Baden-Baden, Germany, where he met Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel before a NATO conference in the German resort town.
Speaking about the sliding economy and the loss of jobs in the U.S., Obama said no nation can isolate itself from the global market. He said that without concerted and united global action, there will be "collective failure."

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Tom Jones and His Songs

From his Hits 'Delilah', 'Kiss' to 'Sex Bomb', Tom Jones is now singing for the first time about his reputation as a ladies man. That, and how grateful he is that his wife stuck by him for 52 years.

Jones, who for the first time co-wrote some of the songs on his latest CD, sings on The Road that "I have felt weakness when I was strong, felt sweetness when I was wrong." But Jones also sings to his wife Linda that "the road always leads back to you."

Jones says his wife didn't ask a lot of questions about who he was with on the road, where she never wanted to join him lest she see how women threw themselves (and, famously, their undergarments) at him.

The bottom line, he says, is that she told him she'd be satisfied, "as long as you come home to me, as long as you don't go running off with somebody."

For their recent 52nd anniversary, Jones says he sent Linda 3 dozen of her favorite red roses since he was on the road, where he'll stay through April performing at mostly small clubs to promote 24 Hours, his first CD released in the U.S. in 15 years.