Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 24 Oct 2011

1. HUNDREDS DIE IN TURKISH EARTHQUAKE There are fears the Turkish death toll could rise to 1,000 after a 7.2 earthquake shattered buildings in the eastern towns of Van and Ercis, near the Iranian border, on Sunday. Rescue workers struggled into the night seeking survivors in the rubble, many using their bare hands. Britain and Israel have pledged aid and rescue services. Shoddy buildings will raise Turkish quake death toll 2. SARKOZY 'SICK OF' BRITAIN'S HECTORING Tensions in the EU over the debt crisis exploded at yesterday's summit when French President Nicholas Sarkozy accused Britain of "interfering" and said "we are sick of you criticising us". David Cameron was caught off-guard by a German proposal for early reform as he faces a Tory rebellion at today's referendum debate in the Commons. 3. MAN UTD GO DOWN 1-6 IN 'WORST DAY EVER' Manchester United crashed to a 1-6 defeat by archrivals Manchester City yesterday at home at Old Trafford, leaving City five points clear at the top of the Premier League. Sir Alex Ferguson said he was "shattered" and that it was "our worst day ever". Mario Balotelli, who had fled a house fire on Saturday, scored two for City. 4. ST PAUL'S PONDERS ACTION AGAINST 'OCCUPIERS' Officials from St Paul's Cathedral are pondering legal action to force protesters to remove the Occupy the London Stock Exchange camp set up outside the building after asking a second time for them to move on. Closed since Friday, the Cathedral is losing £20,000 a day in revenue. Protestors have set up a second camp in Finsbury Park. 5. MOTORCYCLE RACER DIES IN MALAYSIAN MOTO GP Italian rider Marco Simoncelli died of head, neck and chest injuries in a horrific crash at the Malaysian MotoGP in Sepang yesterday, the first fatality at a MotoGP motorcycle race since 2003. The 24-year-old lost his helmet in a second lap pile-up involving champion and fellow Italian star Valentino Rossi. The race was abandoned. 6. OLD RIVALRIES SURFACE AS LIBYA DECLARES LIBERATION Libya’s Transitional Council declared national liberation yesterday before jubilant crowds in Benghazi, where the fight against dictator Col Gaddafi began, even as tribal rivalries between east and west Libya surfaced over the choice of the eastern city for the celebration. A post mortem ruled that Gaddafi had died from a bullet to the head. Libyan PM: I wish Gaddafi had not been killed 7. FEAR OF HIGH FEES CUTS UNIVERSITY ENROLMENT One in 10 potential university students is being deterred altogether by fees rising to as much as £9,000, a survey for the BBC's Inside Out reported last night, while about half might stay close to home to cut living costs, seek cheaper education abroad, or an apprenticeship. There has been a corresponding fall of 10 per cent in applications. 8. TUNISIANS HOLD FIRST FREE VOTE Tunisians yesterday voted in national elections. In doing so, they staged the first free poll resulting from the Arab Spring in the country where the uprising began. More than 90% turned out to vote for a 217-seat assembly which will draft a constitution and appoint an interim government. Islamists are expected to win most votes. 9. BABY GIULIA SARKOZY GOES HOME, INVISIBLY Giulia, the four-day-old daughter of France's President Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, went home from the private Muette Clinic in Paris yesterday, but remained invisible to the public and the cameras as her mother carried her bundled in a wrap, her face covered, to a waiting car. Bruni has said she will "never expose this child". 10. HOT TICKET: TURNER TIME AGAIN The Turner Prize exhibition, held for only the second time outside of London, has opened at the Baltic gallery in Gateshead. The nominees for the prestigious art prize are Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw, with works ranging from a cosmetics installation to hyper-realist paintings of a housing estate.

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