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Poland struggles to come to terms with the loss of its president and dozens of senior officials in a plane crash near Smolensk airport

Bicentenary of Rauzzini's death dominated by question: was he a castrato, or just a natural male soprano?

John Crace overhears the candidates weighing up the pros and cons of extending paternity leave

Stand-off between business and Labour intensifies - a total of 104 business chiefs have now signed the letter masterminded by the Conservatives

Marina Hyde: Walking Walton's derelict streets, it is hard not to conclude that football's current model is dysfunctional

Nick Clegg will claim that for 13 years government policies have been unfair, and will pledge to lift personal tax allowance

John Harris: David Miliband's 'mobile surgery' in his troubled South Shields constituency may have been a no-show, but the foreign secretary was in a bullish mood

Mike Smithson, the founder and editor of politicalbetting.com, gives his tips on who to put your money on

A report on boardroom pay reveals that senior managers in the NHS received an average pay rise of 6.9% in the last year

A report says top comprehensive schools in England are more socially exclusive because they allow middle-class parents to play the admissions system

Academic reveals 1975 liaison with director who arrived unannounced but with brown silk pyjamas with cream piping

Scientists gather to vote on call to replace august body's ruling council after departure of director Baroness Greenfield

An Edinburgh-based chocolate maker has given Scotland's national dish a cocoa-tinged makeover. Robert Burns' thoughts not available …

Greece's economic turbulence has proved an opportunity as much as a challenge for George Papandreou

The Treasury report was drafted in response to a request by former prime minister Tony Blair in 2004

Despite the worst recession for 60 years, property prices in London are bouncing back to bubble proportions after falling for 18 months

Gary Younge: Reckless, anarchic and strident, the American right is living in a parallel world where fear and rage drive out the facts

Ian McMillan: Some people shun the limelight while others kiss it – and I'm proud to be one of the kissers

Raj Patel: Coincidence led to my being hailed as a prince of peace. But change will come from our own hard work, not a deity

Jackie Ashley: We have never had the culture wars politics of America in this country, but thanks to the Tories that may all change

Martin Rowson: on the day that the political parties released their election manifestos

Peter Preston: David Cameron is reviving the past with his plan to limit public sector pay. But were we happier then?

Theatre 503, London
There are likable performances and the tunes slip down easily, but this show fails to take its subject seriously, writes Michael Billington