10 things you need to know this Monday

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WINDFALL TAX ON BONUSES - YES OR NO?Will he or won't he? The media are split on whether Chancellor Alistair Darling will announce a windfall tax on City bonuses when he presents his Pre-Budget report on Wednesday. Treasury spin-doctors say it won't happen - and nor will capital gains tax be raised above its current 18 per cent rate - because this is not the time to "soak the rich" and risk driving away City business. But the BBC's business editor Robert Peston and others say the bonus tax is very likely. More...AMANDA KNOX VERDICT 'ANTI-AMERICAN'US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been asked to investigate claims that Amanda Knox was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. The plea comes from Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington state - where the Knox family live - who claims Knox's conviction for murder raises "serious questions about the Italian justice system" and suggests there was a strong anti-American element to the trial. The First Post's psychoanalyst Coline Covington says that, despite reservations about the quality of the evidence against Knox, the 22-year-old does display signs of a psychopath. More...ENGLAND LUCKY IN WORLD CUP DRAWFootball pundits are agreed: England's chances of success in next summer's World Cup have been hugely enhanced by the group draw held in South Africa on Friday. England's opponents in Group C are the United States, Algeria and Slovenia. Former England striker and Match of the Day host Gary Lineker called it "a terrific draw". The USA are seen as the danger team, says Lineker, though "they play in a similar style to England but with inferior players".

COPENHAGEN OVERSHADOWEDThe Copenhagen climate change summit begins today, overshadowed by the University of East Anglia 'Climategate' emails. The stolen emails appear to show - to sceptics at least - that some scientists have manipulated data to prove their point that climate change is man-made. A leading UN scientist now claims the stolen emails were leaked by the Russians - because Russia has a vested interest in Copenhagen failing. More...RBS 'LOSES 1,000 BANKERS'More than 1,000 investment bankers have left Royal Bank of Scotland since the Government ordered the bank - soon to be 84 per cent-state-owned - to clamp down on bonuses. The traders and corporate financiers have joined rival firms for guaranteed cash bonuses and salary increases, according to the Sunday Times.

JUNGLE 'CELEBRITIES' CHARGED WITH CRUELTYTwo contestants in the ITV reality show I'm a celebrity... Get Me Out of Here have been charged with animal cruelty by Australian police after they cooked a rat as part of their jungle trials. They are Ready Steady Cook chef Gino D'Acampo, who won the contest, and former Hollyoaks actor Stuart Manning. Not only did the two men behead a rat with a kitchen knife and then turn it into a risotto for camp-mates, but what viewers were told was a wild rat may have been a tame one. Both men have been told to appear in court in Australia on February 3.

DAY OF MOURNING FOR RUSSIAN NIGHTCLUB VICTIMS Russian president Dimitri Medvedev has declared Monday a day of mourning following the deaths of 109 people on Friday night when a fireworks display caused a fire in a nightclub. Many club-goers were crushed to death in the scramble for the solitary exit, while others died from smoke inhalation. The owner and manager of the Lame Horse club in Perm have been arrested amid claims that they had flouted fire regulations. "They have neither brains nor conscience," said Medvedev.

DASHA 1, CHELSEA 0 The Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has become a father for the sixth time after his girlfriend, the former model turned fashion designer and art gallerist Dasha Zhukova, gave birth to a boy in Los Angeles. Abramovich was said to be "ecstatic". What he thought about his football club Chelsea being beaten 2-1 by Manchester City on Saturday, after the ever dependable Frank Lampard missed a penalty, is not recorded. More... TIGER WOODS THE SEX ADDICT? A Florida waitress, a Las Vegas model and a New York clubber are the latest additions to a growing list of women with whom Tiger Woods is alleged to have had affairs. Mindy Lawton, Jamie Jungers and Cori Rist bring the list of possible 'transgressees' to six, leading many to suggest that Woods is not only a serial cheater, but also a sex addict. More...DANYL JOHNSON OUT OF 'X FACTOR' With the X Factor marathon only a week away from its conclusion, schoolteacher Danyl Johnson was voted off last night. That leaves three finalists: Olly Murs, who burst into tears on learning he had made it through, 18-year-old Joe McElderry and single mum Stacey Solomon. Bookies have made McElderry the clear favourite for next weekend's final, with a general price of 4/11. ·