Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 9 Aug 2011

published 9 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. LONDON RIOTS: CAMERON recalls parliamentPrime Minister David Cameron has recalled parliament to deal with the London riots, which entered their third night yesterday and spread to other major cities. Cameron said police numbers on London streets tonight would be nearly tripled to 16,000. At least 225 people have been arrested amid accusations that the police have abandoned the streets to looters. London riots day 3 - pictures The Mole: At least politicians (apart from Ken) are united London riots: what the rest of the world thinks MARK DUGGAN HAD 'CONVERTED' GUN BUT did NOT FIREThe gun carried by Mark Duggan, the man whose killing sparked London's rioting, was a converted replica or starting pistol capable of firing real ammunition, the Guardian reports this morning. Forensic tests are expected to confirm that it had not been fired. Sky News reports that the officer who shot Duggan had not claimed that Duggan shot at him, but that he believed his life was in danger. Mark Duggan: gangster, family man, or both? SHARES REBOUND, BUT MARKETS VOLATILEShares rebounded this afternoon after heavy falls across Europe and Asia following yesterday's sell-off on Wall Street. Investors are worried about America's debt following its credit downgrade at the weekend and whether Italy and Spain will default. Despite predictions of a bear market, the FTSE-100 was up on the day by the time the Dow Jones opened with a 1.2 per cent overnight gain. Global stock markets fall amid China inflation fears UNCONTACTED AMAZON TRIBE MAY HAVE BEEN MURDEREDThere are concerns that an uncontacted Amazon tribe may have been "massacred" by Peruvian drugs traffickers who moved into the area they inhabit last month. A Brazilian police operation in the region resulted in the arrest of a Portuguese man, but arrows from the tribe were found among the smugglers' backpacks. Amazon tribe ‘massacred’ by drugs traffickers LAWYERS FOR DSK'S ALLEGED VICTIM GO FOR THE MONEYLawyers for Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel maid who fallen IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn is accused of attempting to rape, yesterday filed suit in civil court in New York seeking unspecified financial damages. Prosecutors are expected to drop criminal charges after losing confidence in Diallo as a witness. Maid sues Strauss-Kahn for ‘violent, sadistic’ attack LOCAL TV LICENCES UP FOR GRABSLicenses to run the UK's first local TV services will be awarded next year and 65 towns and cities are in the running to be awarded. The set up costs wil be covered in part by the Licence Fee but advertising will pay for the running costs. The winning areas will receive local TV from existing transmitters. SARAH PALIN BECOMES GRANDMOTHER FOR SECOND TIMESarah Palin has become a grandmother for the second time, it was reported last night, with a daughter, Kyla Grace, born to her son Track, an Army reservist. His wife Britta Hanson is a former room mate of Bristol Palin and a secretary to Sarah Palin in the Alaska governor's office. UK BEACH VOLLEYBALL champs get bum sponsorBritain's female beach volleyball champions Zara Dampney, 24, and Shauna Mullin, 26, have rented out space on the bikini bottoms in which they compete in an advertising deal with the betting firm Betfair, who say the bottoms are "one of the places that is likely to get photographed the most" during next year's London Olympics. CAPTAIN MORGAN'S TREASURE SHIP 'FOUND' OFF PANAMAThe wreckage of a vessel believed to be 17th-century buccaneer Captain Morgan's flagship Satisfaction has been found off Panama by archaeologists from Texas State University. The find includes "numerous" intact cargo boxes and coral-encrusted chests. Any treasure will go to Panama. pistorius TO COMPETE IN world ATHLeTICS CHAMps Oscar Pistorius, the 'Blade Runner', will become the first amputee athlete to compete at the able-bodied World Championships after being named in South Africa's squad. The 24-year-old double-amputee, who runs on carbon fibre prosthetics, will race in South Korea on August 27.