Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 19 Feb 2013

Oscar Pistorius says he had "no intention" of killing his "beloved" girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and is "absolutely mortified" by her death. But a magistrate has ruled that the Paralympic athelete should face a charge of premeditated murder over the model's killing. The decision means it will be difficult for the 26-year-old athlete to get bail.

The boss of an aircraft parts manufacturer charged with racially abusing a crying toddler and slapping it in the face on a flight from Minneapolis to Atlanta, has lost his job and faces up to a year in prison if convicted. Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, is alleged to have abused the child and hit it when it began to cry as the aircraft prepared to land in Atlanta on 8 February.

Prime Minister David Cameron said today the novelist Hilary Mantel was "completely misguided" in describing the Duchess of Cambridge as a "shop window mannequin", "without character" and with a "perfect plastic smile" in a London Review of Books lecture. Her historical research had taught her that "a royal lady is a royal vagina", said Mantel.

MPs have attacked the decision to change the name of Sandhurst Military Academy's Mons Hall – named to commemorate the epic Battle of Mons in World War One - to King Hamad Hall, after the King of Bahrain who donated £3m to help with refurbishment. Bahrain is guilty of "all sorts of human rights abuses" said MP Andy Slaughter.

Manchester United remain on target to win both the Premier League and the FA Cup after beating Reading 2-1 last night to go forward to the Cup quarter-finals. Portuguese winger Nani scored one goal and created another for Javier Hernandez. Jobi McAnuff scored for Reading. United now face either Middlesbrough or Chelsea.