Tuesday, 31 May 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. Sponsored by Hyundai

Economy: no panic yet but the growth isn’t coming

Richard Ehrman: Chancellor Osborne's plan A has hit a snag - and we all know there's no plan B


Egyptian financier accused of molesting NY hotel maid

Striking similarities with Strauss-Kahn case as former bank chairman is arrested in New York

Ballsy Blatter insists there is no problem at Fifa

‘Football is not in a crisis... we can deal with our problems internally’ Blatter tells the world

When violence smashes into an orderly life

Michael Bywater on a superb account of Britain's first railway murder

Al Jazeera posts video of ‘western soldiers’ in Libya

First evidence of allied ‘boots on the ground’ filmed west of Misrata (with video)

Lawyers dig for dirt in bid to save Strauss-Kahn

Private eyes and former CIA spies join lawyers in biggest defence operation since OJ Simpson trial