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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
MANUFACTURING: Car maker Toyota is recalling more than 35,000 British cars after it discovered serious faults.
The issues could deactivate airbags, cause seats to move while driving and break steering columns.
They affect some RAV4, Hilux, Yaris and Urban Cruiser models, Toyota said.
STEVE JOHNSON savours a singing legend who stayed true to her working-class origins
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
One hundred years after 1.7m workers shut the country down in defence of the miners, the struggles that sparked the 1926 General Strike are still with us – and will be honoured on London’s May Day march this year, writes MARY ADOSSIDES
DAVID NICHOLSON is thrilled – and shocked – by an opera that seethes and sizzles with passion and the depraved use of power