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The former chief executive of the British bank Barclays is appearing before a parliamentary committee in Britain Wednesday. Bob Diamond, who resigned Tuesday, is supposed to answer questions about the rate-setting scandal at the company. Barclays released documents Tuesday suggesting that a Bank of England official may have pressured the bank to lower its rates.

Tom Manoff reviews a new CD by the Akademie fuer Alte Musik Berlin that features exciting performances of some less than famous composers. The CD is Ouvertueren (Overtures): Music for the Hamburg Opera is on the Harmonia Mundi label.

Summer has arrived, the sun is shining (at least, it's supposed to be) and music journalist/armchair philosophizer Christian Bordal ruminates on the appropriate sounds for the season.

Even a ubiquitous figure like Chuck Berry has neglected gems gathering spiderwebs in remote corners of his catalog. Blues helps fill in a bit of his legend, showing how he transferred devices used by generations of blues guitarists into the then-new rebellion of rock.

Johnny Paycheck's Gospel Time in My Fashion was recorded in 1966, during a period when many country stars were doing gospel projects. It stands apart because Paycheck's sweet voice can't fully mask the orneriness underneath — and because the songs, even the waltzes, move at a brisk, buoyant clip.

Celebrating Palm Sunday Mass before crowds in St. Peter's Square for the first time since the pandemic, Pope Francis called for a truce.

Citing "increasing reports of Ukrainian women feeling at risk from their sponsors," the U.N.'s refugee agency is urging U.K. officials to refine the matching process for its Homes for Ukraine program.

Burrowed into the side of a mountain, on a Norwegian island deep in the Arctic, is the Global Seed Vault, a small building where vital seed varieties are kept in a deep freeze year round.

It is a basic truth in any counterinsurgency campaign: It is possible to win all the battles and still lose the war. Three years into the Iraq war, the U.S. military admits it has learned that the hard way. At Fort Irwin, soldiers are trained in new counterinsurgency tactics in an attempt to turn the tide of the war.

Bob Mondello looks at a new phenomenon that's been popping up on the web: people recutting footage from old movies and adding familiar music to suggest radically different films from the ones we know.