Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 8 Feb 2011

published 8 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. CAIRO: thousands enter tahrir squareHundreds of thousands of pro-democracy supporters gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square this afternoon for another major anti-Mubarak rally. Attempts by the army to check ID cards had to be abandoned. Some demonstrators agreed that the president's newly announced constitutional changes were a step forward - but they still want him to leave office immediately. Is this the way out for Hosni Mubarak? Tunis yesterday, Cairo today, London tomorrow? Does the West need to fear the Muslim brotherhood? LABOUR AND MEGRAHI: DEMANDS FOR INQUIRYUS politicians are putting pressure on David Cameron to call an inquiry into the previous Labour administration's actions over the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi. A report by Sir Gus O'Donnell released yesterday showed that, under Gordon Brown's leadership, the UK government did "all it could" to help Libya achieve Megrahi's freedom for fear British companies might lose multi-million-pound contracts with Libya if Megrahi died in prison. TV EXECUTIVE GUILTY OF BEHEADING HIS WIFE Muzzammil Hassan, the founder of an American TV network designed to counter the negative portrayals of Muslims in the US after 9/11, has been found guilty of murder by a jury in Buffalo, New York. Hassan claimed he had stabbed his wife Aasiya to death - and then beheaded her - in self-defence against her spousal abuse. The jury rejected his claim and he faces life in prison when he is sentenced. OSBORNE RAISES BANK LEVY TO £2.5BNChancellor George Osborne has increased the government levy on bank profits by £800m to £2.5bn. But the move has not gone down well with either the banks themselves or Labour. The BBC reported that the four biggest UK lenders were "livid" at the announcement, while Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, said it was a "hurried and panicky" move and an attempt to replace Labour's 2010 bonus tax. CAMILLA BELIEVES SHE 'COULD BECOME QUEEN'The thorny issue of what status the Duchess of York will enjoy if and when her husband Prince Charles ascends the throne was cast aside yesterday when she visitied a children's centre in Wiltshire. Asked by an eight-year-old girl: "Are you going to be Queen one day?" Camilla replied: "You never know." The official line remains that Camilla, being a divorcee, will be known as Princess Consort. ANNI DEWANI 'WAS NOT MEANT TO DIE'One of the South African men accused of killing honeymoon bride Anni Dewani has told police that it was not a planned hit, but a robbery that went wrong. Mziwamadoda Qwabe's testimony appears to support Shrien Dewani's consistent story that he did not order his new wife's killing. According to the Daily Mail, Qwabe's claim that he and Xolile Mngeni "never planned to kill" Anni was included in an affidavit to police. But when the affidavit was read out in court last week, the crucial sentence was left out. ANDY GRAY AND RICHARD KEYS JOIN TALKSPORTFomer Sky Sports presenters Andy Gray and Richard Keys have signed up with commercial radio station Talksport, two weeks after they left the satellite TV broadcaster over a sexism row. Gray was sacked after footage of him making sexist remarks about a female linesman and to a female colleague emerged and Key resigned two days later. The pair will host a host a three-hour show on weekdays. TWITTER IS NOT PRIVATE, RULES PCCThe Press Complaints Committee has ruled that material posted on microblogging website Twitter is 'public' and can be published by the media. The ruling comes after civil servant Sarah Baskerville complained about articles in the Daily Mail and Independent on Sunday that included her tweets. She had claimed that the papers invaded her privacy, but the PCC said that Twitter was publicly accessible and that her tweets were not hidden. WORLDWIDE RISE IN SHARK ATTACKSThe number of shark attacks on humans reported last year was 25 per cent up on 2009, and higher sea temperatures are partly to blame, according to the the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File. There were 79 attacks globally, six of them fatal. However, George Burgess, file director, said on balance humans come out of this well: fishing fleets kill somewhere between 30 million to 70 million sharks a year. FREED GOOGLE MAN REVEALS ROLE IN PROTESTS The Google executive released yesterday by Egyptian authorities has revealed that it was he who started the 'We are all Khaled Said' Facebook group that inspired so many young Egyptians to take to the streets in late January. In an emotional TV interview, Wael Ghonim, 30, Google's regional marketing chief, declared: "This is the revolution of the youth of the internet, and now the revolution of all Egyptians." Wael Ghonim is Egypt's new protest icon