Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 11 Feb 2011

published 11 February 2011

Our popular news catch-up service is posted Monday to Friday at 8.00 am. You can rely on it to keep you up to date through the working day with the main news talking points. PRESIDENT MUBARAK STANDS DOWNThousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tahrir Square sent up a deafening cheer as the news came though just after 6.0 pm local time (4.0 pm UK time) today that Hosni Mubarak had resigned as president of the Republic and that a military council has been charged with administering the country until elections can be held later this year. Mubarak has left Cairo with his family for his holiday home in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Cairo’s lesson: Twitter is mightier than the tank Torture tales ruin friendly image of Egyptian army JEREMY BAMBER DENIED MURDER APPEALJeremy Bamber, the Essex man jailed for life for the murder of his entire adoptive family in 1985, has been refused his latest attempt to prove his innocence. Bamber has always denied killing his adoptive parents, his sister Sheila Caffell, and her twin sons, insisting that it was Sheila, a schizophrenic, who shot and murdered the family before turning the gun on herself. Bamber is said to be "totally stunned" by the Criminal Cases Review Commission's decision today not to refer his case to the court of appeal. BEYONCE TO HEADLINE AT GLASTONBURYBeyonce Knowles is to emulate her husband, rapper Jay Z, by headlining at the Glastonbury music festival this summer. The Crazy In Love singer's record label confirmed that she would be performing even though the 2011 line-up has yet to be confirmed. Beyonce will close the event on Sunday night. The weekend's other headliners are rumoured to be Coldplay and U2, who had to pull out of the 2010 festival. ASSANGE extradition verdict later this monthWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out later this month if he is to be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault charges. After three days of legal argument Judge Howard Riddle adjourned the case until February 24. On Friday Assange's lawyer, Geoffrey Robertson QC, claimed his client would not get a fair trial in Sweden as the prime minister had portrayed him as "public enemy number one". He was accused of trying to downplay the allegations against Assange. NOKIA 'RESCUED' BY MICROSOFT PARTNERSHIP Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, has announced plans to form a "broad strategic partnership" with Microsoft, within days of Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop warning that the company was in crisis. Under the deal, Nokia will use the Windows phone operating system for its smartphones and Bing to power Nokia's search services. OSBORNE BRUSHES ASIDE LIB DEM CUTS PROTESTChancellor George Osborne has dismissed the concerns of 90 senior Lib Dem councillors who wrote to the Times yesterday arguing that Government spending reforms were being implemented too harshly. Osborne defended the speed of his spending cuts saying the "national credit card has completely maxed out". The Mole: Cameron's agent protests library closure BUTTOCK SURGERY WOMAN WAS 'LEFT IN AGONY'Claudia Aderotimi, the young British woman who died after having backstreet cosmetic surgery in the US to enlarge her buttocks, had been left in agony after undergoing the same silicone injections in November, months earlier. Aderotimi told her ex-boyfriend Paul Djimo that the procedure was too painful for her to repeat it. Buttock injection exposes US underworld PARLIAMENT DEFIES EUROPE OVER PRISONER VOTINGMPs of all parties last night defied the European Court of Human Rights and voted to keep the ban on prisoners voting. David Cameron missed the vote and instructed his cabinet to abstain but the motion was passed by a huge 234 to 22 majority. Cameron is now facing what could become a full-scale constitutional crisis for the UK. RELATIVE OF PRESIDENT AMONG IRISH AIRCRASH DEADA relative of Irish president Mary McAleese is among the six people killed when a plane crashed while trying to land at Cork airport in heavy fog yesterday. The pilot was making his third attempt when the plane turned over and caught. Also among the dead of Ireland's worst crash since 1968 was Belfast's deputy harbour master. BACON PAINTING MAKES £23M IN LONDONA portrait by Francis Bacon of his friend, the painter Lucian Freud, has sold at Sotheby's for a huge £23m, three times the estimate. An anonymous bidder bought the powerful triptych, painted in 1965. The same auction also set a new record for the most paid for any surrealist painting as a work by Salvador Dali went for £13.5m.