Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 11 Aug 2011

published 11 August 2011

Our popular news catch-up service is posted Monday to Friday at 8.0am. You can rely on it to keep you up to date through the working day with the main news talking points. CAMERON ADMITS THERE WERE 'TOO FEW' policeDavid Cameron has told MPs that there were "far too few" police on the streets during rioting this week and pledged to help the victims. He also announced a crackdown on facemasks and a review of curfews. Meanwhile an 11-year-old girl has been charged with criminal damage and a law student and a trainee dancer have gone before the courts as a result of the disorder. A nation of looters: it even happened in the Blitz Neil Clark: Left and Right both to blame for ‘sick’ society UK riots: is liberal society to blame? SPURS MATCH CALLED OFF AFTER RIOTSTottenham Hotspur's football match against Everton on Saturday has been called off in the wake of riots in London earlier this week. But the Premier League confirmed that all other matches scheduled this weekend would go ahead, although kick off times may be altered to suit the police. All Football League games will go ahead as planned. SHARES OPEN HIGHER IN AMERICAUS shares rose in early trading today as stock market volatility around the world continued. Asian markets recovered after initial losses but still closed down. Most of the fear was focused on France, where bank stocks plunged although the government insisted it would not lose its AAA credit rating. What can we do to calm the bonkers, feral markets? OBAMA SET TO TELL SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD TO GOSyria's brutal crackdown on anti-governemt protests continues with police reportedly killing seven civilians in a town in the district of Homs. But pressure on president Bashar al-Assad from America has increased after US Treasury sanctions were imposed, and Barack Obama is now expected to call on him to stand down. WOMAN WHO JUMPED FROM inferno IS POLISH The woman whose terrified leap to safety from a fiery building in Croydon provided a defining image of London rioting that went around the world has been identified as a Polish immigrant who had begun a new life in Britain just five months ago. Monika Konczyk, 32, is "traumatised" but "feels lucky to be alive". CHINA TESTS ITS FIRST 'SECRET' AIRCRAFT CARRIERThe Chinese navy's first aircraft carrier, the former Russian warship Varyag, has put to sea for trials, the state news agency announced yesterday after years in which its existence was supposedly secret. China had claimed that it was to be a casino when it was first bought. FORMER NOTW news EDITOR ARRESTED IN HACKING PROBEGreg Miskiw, 61, the former News of the World news editor discovered living in Florida, was arrested in London yesterday after returning to appear for questioning in the Met police investigation into phone hacking. The 12th to be arrested, he was bailed this morning. Scoop! Police want to talk to Greg Miskiw BBC PRESENTER DIED AFTER TAKING MeOW-MeOW DRUGThe award-winning BBC radio presenter and musician 'Big George' Webley, 53, died after taking mephedrone - also known as 'meow-meow' - an inquest was told yesterday. A grandfather of four, he had arranged the music for Have I Got News for You, and The Office. Mick JAGGER to record songs in SANSKRIT and urduRolling Stone Mick Jagger said yesterday that he will be heard singing in Sanskrit on a new single from the "supergroup" SuperHeavy he formed in May with Oscar-winning Indian musician AR Rahman. "It's different," he told Rolling Stone magazine. He said another song on the album to be released in September will be in Urdu. COOK SCORES TON AS ENGLAND DOMINATE INDIAEngland put themselves in a dominant position in the third test against India, overhauling the tourists' meagre first innings total of 224 for the loss of just one wicket, that of skipper Andrew Strauss, who made 87. Fellow opener Alistair Cook scored his 19th Test hundred as England looked to built an insurmountable lead.