Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Wednesday 2 Mar 2016

1. Super Tuesday: Clinton and Trump win big

The count is not quite over but it looks as though Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each resoundingly beat their rivals in yesterday's Super Tuesday voting in the US presidential campaing. Each won in seven states and made significant progress towards their parties' nomination.

What is Hillary Clinton doing now?

2. Refugee crisis 'weaponised' to undermine Europe

Russia and Syria are "weaponising" the refugee crisis to destabilise Europe, Nato's senior commander in Europe has claimed. US General Philip Breedlove said that criminals, extremists and fighters were among the flow of migrants from Syria. Meanwhile the European Commission has urged members of the Schengen group of countries to lift emergency border controls by the end of the year.

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Islamic State targets vulnerable refugee children for recruitment

3. UK 'weaker' outside EU, analysis says

Official analysis on Britain's membership of the EU says the UK would be "weaker, less safe and worse off" outside the bloc. But leading Out campaigner Iain Duncan Smith said the report, to be published today, was a "dodgy dossier" that "won't fool anyone".

Remain-voting City lobby group calls for 'dramatic Brexit U-turn'

4. Schools urged to ban rugby tackling

More than 70 doctors and academics have signed an open letter urging the government to ban rugby tackling in UK and Irish schools. They say the risks are higher for players aged under 18 and warn the "high-impact collision sport" can have lifelong consequences for children, who should play touch rugby instead.

5. Crew return safely from International Space Station

After 342 days in the International Space Station, two crew members have touched down safely in Kazakhstan as they return home. US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Korniyenko spent twice the normal time in orbit for a study on the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body.

Astronaut Scott Kelly's most fascinating tweets from space

6. Police hunt man with 'backpack of petrol bombs'

A man wanted by police after his sister was doused in petrol and set on fire could be carrying several petrol bombs in his backpack. Stephen Archer, 50, is described as "dangerous and unstable". His 49-year-old sister is in a critical condition after suffering 70 per cent burns at her home in Newton Heath, Manchester.

7. Scotland braced for snow and ice

The Met Office has issued yellow "be aware" alerts for large parts of Scotland, warning commuters that they will encounter snow and ice. Snow was due to fall overnight and early this morning, with as much as four inches on higher ground. The Met Office also says this winter has already been the wettest in Scotland since records began in 1910.

UK weather: Storm to batter Britain this weekend

8. Footballer guilty of one child sex charge

Footballer Adam Johnson has been found guilty of one count of sexual activity with a child by a jury at Bradford Crown Court, and not guilty on a second charge. The 28-year-old former Sunderland player had admitted grooming and kissing a 15-year-old fan but denied two more serious charges. He was convicted of one of the charges in a majority verdict.

9. Coronation Street creator Tony Warren dies

Coronation Street creator Tony Warren has died at the age of 79. The former child star's idea for the soap opera was commissioned by Granada Television in 1960 and remains one of the UK's most successful TV shows. Warren continued to write episodes until the late 1970s and William Roache, who has played Ken Barlow since 1960, described him as the "father" of the show.

10. Briefing: Nasa's bid to build the next Concorde

Nasa has commissioned initial designs for a supersonic passenger jet to fill the gap left by the retired Anglo-French Concorde.

The US space agency is paying US tech company Lockheed Martin Aeronautics $20m over the next 17 months to come up with a preliminary concept for a "quiet supersonic transport" plane, dubbed Quesst.

Will Nasa's Quesst project be the next Concorde?