Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 25 Oct 2011

1. CAMERON: 'NO BAD BLOOD' OVER EU VOTE David Cameron has insisted there is "no bad blood" between him and the 81 Tory rebels who defied a three-line whip and voted in favour of a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union last night. The cross-party count for all MPs was 483 against, 111 in favour. EU debate exposes Cameron's ‘cack-handed’ leadership. Tory rebels have done David Cameron real damage. 2. EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY: BABY FOUND ALIVE Hundreds of earthquake victims remained missing last night as temperatures plunged in the mountain towns of Van and Ercis hit by a 7.2 earthquake on Sunday. As volunteers dug in the rubble of more than 2,000 collapsed buildings, the government confirmed that 366 people had died. But there was good news when rescuers found a two-week-old baby alive. In pictures: Turkey earthquake. 3. MURDOCHS REBUKED BY SHAREHOLDERS A third of News Corp investors voted against Rupert Murdoch's sons, James and Lachlan, being re-elected to the board at Friday's meeting in LA, figures released on Monday have revealed. James Murdoch faces MPs for further questioning over phone hacking on November 10. Fourteen per cent wanted Rupert removed as chairman. 4. TUNISIA VOTES FOR MODERATE ISLAMISTS Tunisia's moderate Islamist party, Ennahda, last night claimed victory in the first democratic elections to follow the Arab Spring, as its main rival the centre-left PDP conceded defeat, although no overall majority is expected in the official result today. Ennahda promises a multi-party secular democracy, not an Islamic state. 5. TABAK WAS 'DETERMINED' TO KILL YEATES The trial of Vincent Tabak, the man accused of murdering Jo Yeates, has been told that he was "determined" to kill her when he grabbed her by the throat in her flat in December last year. In his closing remarks to the jury Nigel Lickley QC, prosecuting, said Tabak was "highly intelligent", but also "dishonest, deceitful and a liar". 6. DESERT BURIAL FOR TWO GADDAFIS Libya's Col Gaddafi and his son Mutassim, executed by rebels at the fall of Sirte, have been buried in a secret location in the open desert today. Gaddafi's own tribe refused to take the bodies "which cannot last longer" in cold storage. Saif al-Islam, Gaddafi's anointed heir, was said to have escaped into Niger. Gaddafi burial demands published while NTC stalls. 7. DRAKE'S LAST FLEET LOCATED OFF PANAMA American treasure hunter Pat Croce yesterday claimed to have discovered the wrecks of two ships scuttled and sunk off Panama when Sir Francis Drake, "Queen Elizabeth 's pirate" and scourge of the Spanish Armada, died of dysentery in 1596. Croce will search for Drake's remains in full armour in a lead casket "three leagues" away. 8. SYRIAN REGIME 'TORTURES HOSPITAL PATIENTS' Amnesty International has claimed that the Syrian regime has tortured patients in at least four hospitals. Some of the abuse was carried out by medical staff, it says, and some dissidents are too scared to have injuries treated. The UN says more than 3,000 people have died since the uprising began. 9. JAVAN RHINO EXTINCT IN VIETNAM The WWF and the International Rhino Foundation have confirmed that the Javan rhino is now extinct in Vietnam and the last remaining population of the animal comprises about 50 specimens in Indonesia. DNA testing of rhino dung, discovered in the forests of Vietnam, found it all came from one animal, which was killed by poachers last year. 10. HOT TICKET: DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Ariel Dorfman's harrowing play Death and the Maiden opened last night at London's Harold Pinter Theatre (formerly the Comedy). Critics are underwhelmed by Thandie Newton's performance as a former political prisoner seeking revenge on the Chilean doctor she believes once tortured her. But the powerful theme still resonates.

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