10 things you need to know today: February 8, 2016

1. Broncos beat Panthers to win Super Bowl

The Denver Broncos upset the Carolina Panthers 24-10 Sunday night to win Super Bowl 50. The victory made the Broncos' Peyton Manning, 39, the only quarterback to win Super Bowls with two teams, and the oldest quarterback to win a championship. Broncos linebacker Von Miller was the game's MVP. He forced two fumbles, including one near the end zone that teammate Malik Jackson recovered for a touchdown.

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2. U.N. condemns North Korea for rocket launch

On Sunday the United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting and strongly condemned North Korea for launching a long-range rocket despite international warnings. Pyongyang said it was sending a satellite into orbit, but other nations suspect the mission was cover for a ballistic missile test, in violation of U.N. resolutions barring the country from developing missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Tensions rose further on Monday when South Korea fired warning shots at a North Korean patrol boat.

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3. Survivors pulled from rubble a day after Taiwan earthquake

On Monday rescuers pulled two more earthquake survivors from the rubble of a collapsed 17-story apartment building in Taiwan, two days after the 6.4-magnitude temblor. Crews have pulled more than 170 survivors from the ruins. More than 10 people, many alive, are believed to still be inside. Family members waited near the building for word of the missing, some of whom were talking with rescuers and loved ones via cell phones. At least 38 people died in the earthquake, most of them in the same apartment building.

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4. Bill Clinton hammers Bernie Sanders for criticism of Hillary Clinton

Bill Clinton, campaigning for Hillary Clinton ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, ended months of restraint and attacked Sen. Bernie Sanders harshly, calling him hypocritical because he had taken money from wealthy donors while slamming Wall Street. The former president also said his wife's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination had supporters — young men others have dubbed "Bernie Bros" — who were guilty of "sexist" attacks. A top Sanders adviser called Bill Clinton's remarks "disappointing."

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5. Spain arrests seven for suspected ISIS ties

On Sunday Spanish authorities arrested seven people suspected of ties to the Islamic State. The suspects allegedly helped supply money and weapons to militants in Syria and Iraq. The supplies allegedly were sent from Spanish ports in phony humanitarian aid shipments. The suspects included five Spanish nationals of Syrian, Jordanian, and Moroccan origin, as well as two foreigners from Syria and Morocco.

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6. Video shows men giving suspected Somalia plane bomber laptop inside airport

Somali officials said Sunday that a security video shows a suspected suicide bomber taking what appears to be a laptop computer from two men after passing through a security checkpoint at the Mogadishu, Somalia, airport. One of the men has been identified as an airport employee. The suspected bomber was killed when an explosion blew a hole in a Daallo Airlines jet in midair last week. At least 20 people, including the men in the video, have been arrested in connection with the blast. The plane returned safely for an emergency landing in Mogadishu.

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7. Haiti's president ends term with successor's election postponed

Haitian President Michel Martelly left office on Sunday despite a delay in a runoff election to pick his successor. With anti-Martelly demonstrations intensifying, political leaders negotiated a last-minute deal to install a provisional government to finish the elections, which have been disrupted by fraud claims. Lawmakers will select a temporary leader to rule for up to 120 days. The caretaker government will put together a new Provisional Electoral Council to hold runoff presidential and legislative elections in April.

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8. Hamas kills one of its own commanders for alleged 'moral' violations

The Palestinian militant group Hamas said Sunday that it had executed one of its own commanders, Mahmoud Eshtewi, for "moral and behavioral violations." Eshtewi was detained just over a year ago by Hamas. The group has executed Palestinians before for alleged spying, but Eshtewi appears to have been killed for other reasons. "We are shocked," his sister, Buthaina, said. "He can't be executed based on the reasons they provide."

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9. VW plans to offer compensation over diesel scandal

Volkswagen plans to offer compensation to up to 600,000 U.S. customers who own diesel vehicles involved in the German automaker's emission-test cheating scandal, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported Sunday. The paper quoted Kenneth Feinberg, head of the VW claims fund, as saying that the company still had not decided who would be offered cash, vehicle buy-backs, fixes, or new vehicles. VW on Friday postponed the release of its 2015 earnings as it tried to determine the full cost of the scandal.

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10. Teens killed on bobsledding track at Canada Olympic Park

Twin teenage brothers Jordan and Evan Caldwell were killed over the weekend when they and a group of friends rode a personal sled down an Olympic bobsledding track at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta. At least eight teenage boys entered the facility after hours to go down the track. "Part way down, the group hit a large gate used to separate the bobsled and luge tracks," according to a police statement. Six other boys were transported to a hospital, some with serious injuries.

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