Tuesday, 22 February 2011

The First Post 

The First Post

Ten things you need to know today

Tuesday: The First Post's super-quick catch-up on the main news talking points

Britain and Libya: a very embarrassing friendship

Christopher Walker: Gaddafi's brutal crackdown throws spotlight on UK's links with Libya

Shrien Dewani in hospital after drug overdose

Man accused of paying to have wife murdered in Cape Town is 'getting weaker and weaker'

Christchurch earthquake

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake has killed at least 65 people in New Zealand

Coleen Rooney blackmail plot: three arrested

Rooney called police after suspects allegedly tried to sell lost phone back to her

How Assange’s acolytes came to see the truth

Michael Bywater joins The First Post with a tale of betrayal, gamma rays and Spam (the meaty kind)

Elisabeth Murdoch joins News Corp after Shine sale

Business digest: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch buys daughter's production company for £415m

Bahrain GP could be rescheduled in November

F1 season start must wait until March 13 as Crown Prince puts country before motor racing

Ian McEwan hits out at Israel’s ‘great injustice’

Novelist's speech at Jerusalem book fair is met with 'polite but tense silence'