Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 16 Sep 2011

gleision colliery: three MINERs FOUND DEADThree of the four miners trapped in a flooded shaft at the privately run Gleision Colliery in the Swansea Valley have been found dead. Emergency services say there is plenty of oxygen circulating in the mine and are continuing to search for the remaining man. Earlier, divers were forced to turn back because of dangerous debris. FIVE CENTRAL BANKS CO-ORDINATE ON LOANSAsian stock markets bounced this morning after five central banks, including the Bank of England, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central bank, announced a co-ordinated move yesterday to provide commercial banks with more funds to boost their liquidity. Europe's finance ministers meet in Poland today to discuss the eurozone crisis. UBS ROGUE TRADER 'NEEDED A MIRACLE'Kweki Adoboli, the UBS bank employee arrested by London police yesterday after allegedly running up a £1.3bn loss through rogue trading, posted a message on his Facebook page earlier this week saying "Need a miracle". Adoboli remained in police custody last night. His immediate boss at UBS is reported to have resigned. Kweki Adoboli arrested over USB 'rogue trade' DUANE BUCK'S EXECUTION HALTEDThe execution of Duane Buck was halted yesterday after the US Supreme Court agreed that his death sentence had been based partly on racist testimony. A pyschologist had said at his sentencing hearing that Buck, who killed his ex-girlfriend and her companion in 1995, would remain a danger to the public because he was black. Alexander Cockburn: Duane Buck, Rick Perry and the politics of death CAMERON GREETS LIBYAN 'LIONS' IN BENGHAZIDavid Cameron told a jubilant crowd in Benghazi yesterday that "Col Gaddafi said he would hunt you down like rats, but you showed the courage of lions". He and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France were making the first visit to Libya by Western leaders yesterday. As he left, National Transition Council troops claimed to have taken control of Gaddafi's birthplace, Sirte. FBI 'CLOSE IN' ON SCARLETT JOHANSSON HACKERThe FBI was last night poised to arrest a man alleged to have stolen naked photographs of movie star Scarlett Johansson from her BlackBerry. According to the gossip site TMZ , he is the ringleader of a gang of hackers believed to have stolen private images of other Hollywood actresses including Vanessa Hudgens and Jessica Alba. Scarlett Johansson calls in FBI over nude pictures HALF OF PARENTS SAY BRING BACK SCHOOL SPANKINGNearly half of parents of secondary school children, 49 per cent, say corporal punishment such as the cane or slipper should be reintroduced, according to a YouGov survey for the Times Educational Supplement published last night, with 45 per cent opposed. Twenty per cent of the schoolchildren themselves agreed. NEIL KINNOCK'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW LEADS DENMARKNeil Kinnock never fulfilled his dream of becoming British prime minister – but he is now the father-in-law of Denmark's new PM. Helle Thorning-Schmidt, married to Kinnock's son Stephen, leads the country's Social Democratic Party which won a knife-edge general election yesterday. How long she can govern with a tiny majority is an issue. BERLUSCONI: MORE THAN 30 WOMEN READY TO PARTYMore than 30 women, many of them prostitutes or starlets "prostituting themselves", were recruited for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's private parties at his villa in Rome, prosecutors alleged yesterday as they presented the results of a two-year investigation. The women were identified from 100,000 intercepted phone calls. RFU DEFENDS TINDALL OVER 'DWARF THROWING'England rugby officials yesterday sprang to the defence of Mike Tindall after the Sun claimed the player, who recently married the Queen's grand-daughter Zara Phillips, canoodled with a "gorgeous blonde" while watching a dwarf-throwing contest at a bar in New Zealand. The RFU said Tindall and other players were "relaxing after a tough match". Mike Tindall: the blonde, the dwarfs and the Queen

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