Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 6 Sep 2012

The British father shot dead along with his wife and and an older woman in a car near Lake Annecy in the French Alps has been named as 50-year-old Saad al-Hilli from Claygate in Greater London. A seriously wounded eight-year-old girl was found on the ground near the car, while her unharmed four-year-old sister was found beneath the legs of her mother. A French cyclist was also killed.

Judge Peter Bowers, who told a criminal he had shown "huge courage" in committing a series of burglaries, is to be investigated by the Office for Judicial Complaints. Richard Rochford, 26, burgled three homes in East Cleveland, but Judge Bowers refused to give him a custodial sentence, saying prison "very rarely does anybody any good".

Former President Bill Clinton weighed in last night for Barack Obama as he formally proposed him as Democratic presidential nominee, telling Americans to vote for him if they wanted "a 'we're-all-in-this-together' society’” rather than a Republican “winner takes all”. Bad weather forced Obama to cancel plans to make today’s speech in a sports stadium.

The US and human rights groups yesterday called on Libya to give a fair trial to Col Gaddafi's ex-spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi, in jail in Tripoli last night after being deported from Mauritania. He is accused of ordering the slaughter of 1,000 jailed dissidents, and, among other crimes, the bombing of the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie and an Air France flight over Nigeria.

Spain’s public television channel last night broadcast a live bullfight for the first time in six years after the conservative prime minister Mariano Rajoy threw out a ban imposed by the previous socialist government. Catalonia, which includes Barcelona, banned bullfighting last year, but Rajoy claims it is an art form rooted in Spanish history.