Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 4 Oct 2011

AMANDA KNOX FLIES TO SEATTLEAmanda Knox was flying home to Seattle today after leaving Italy following her aquittal of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. US networks are offering big money for a first TV interview with Knox, but the family of Kercher said they felt as though they were "back to square one" in the hunt for her killer. Her father John said the decision was "ludicrous". Amanda Knox: your questions answered In pictures: the Amanda Knox story Amanda Knox is free but the truth remains elusive MAY AND CLARKE CLASH OVER HUMAN RIGHTS ACT Home Secretary Theresa May and Ken Clarke, Secretary of Sate for Justice have clashed over the Human Rights Act. May said the act should be scrapped and told the Conservative conference that an illegal immigrant had been spared deportation because he had a pet cat. However, judges immediately refuted that claim and Clarke later mounted a defence of the act. In pictures: delegates snooze at the Tory conference DOZENS KILLED IN MOGADISHU BLASTA huge suicide bomb attack near a government compound in the Somali capital of Mogadishu has killed at least 70 people. Militant Islamist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the blast. Eyewitnesses said a truck carrying explosives was drivn into a gate and detonated. Many of those killed and injured were students and parents waiting for exam results at the Ministry of Higher Education. LANDLADY WINS TV FOOTBALL RULINGA Portsmouth pub landlady has won a landmark decision from the European Court of Justice after it ruled that fans should be allowed to watch Premier League football on cheap decoders from anywhere in Europe, rather than just on Sky. The ruling could have a serious impact on how broadcast rights are sold both in Britain and across Europe. Premier League TV ruling: what does it mean? BEREZOVSKY was ABRAMOVICH'S 'GODFATHER'Boris Brezovsky acted as political "godfather" to Roman Abramovich as he built his business empire in lawless post-Soviet Russia, battling "corrupt" police and an "unpredictable" legal system, a court in London has been told. Berezovsky is suing the Chelsea owner for more than £3bn, claiming he was intimidated into selling shares by the Chelsea owner. JUPITER MISTAKEN FOR A DISTRESS FLAREThe RNLI and RAF launched a rescue effort in the North Sea on Monday night after a worried member of the public called 999 after mistaking the planet Jupiter for a distress flare. A lifeboat spokesman explained: "The planet Jupiter is very low in the sky at this time of year, but was also covered by clouds which possibly gave the appearance of a flare." FOREIGN DOCTORS 'MUST SPEAK ENGLISH'Foreign doctors moving to Britain after training elsewhere in the EU will be banned from working within the NHS unless they pass a mandatory test in English, health secretary Andrew Lansley will tell the Conservative conference today. The Medical Act will be amended in response to several deaths caused by poor English skills. TINDALL'S NZ SQUEEZE WAS FORMER GIRLFRIENDThe woman captured on camera canoodling in a New Zealand bar with Mike Tindall, newly married to Zara Phillips, has been identified as the rugby player's former girlfriend Jessica Palmer, 29. She is said to be "very upset" over the furore caused by their encounter, which, her grandmother Joan Turton told the Daily Mail, was "totally innocent". Tindall’s Queenstown girl named as Jessica Palmer SOROS SYMPATHISES WITH WALL ST PROTESTBillionaire investor George Soros says he understands the anger over taxpayers' money being used by banks to make "bumper profits and pay bumper bonuses" which is behind the spreading 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstrations spreading through America. Thousands are expected at a trade union supported rally in Wall Street tomorrow. In pictures: 'Occupy Wall Street' protests go nationwide PASSPORTS ADAPT FOR SAME-SEX PARENTS British passport forms are being changed to allow same-sex parents to be identified as 'Parent 1' and 'Parent 2' rather than as mother and father, the Home Office announced yesterday. The forms, to be brought in by the end of the year, will also enable transgender people to opt out of identifying their sex.

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