Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Sunday 3 Oct 2010

Our popular news catch-up service is posted Monday to Friday at 8.0 am, and on weekends at 11.0 am. You can rely on it to keep you up to date with the main news talking points... GAMES BEGIN AMID TIGHT SECURITYSunday sees the opening ceremony in Delhi of the 19th Commonwealth Games with over 7,000 athletes from 71 countries parading around the Nehru Stadium. Protected by an estimated 100,000 security personnel, Prince Charles will declare the Games officially open and the competition begins on Monday in the pool. Trained monkeys on guard at Commonwealth Games WAYNE ROONEY DROPPED BY COKECoca-Cola executives in the USA are said to be so outraged over revelations that Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney had sex with prostitutes while his wife was pregnant that they've dropped him from a major marketing campaign. According to the Daily Mail, Coke chiefs found Rooney's "conduct disgusting" and will not now be printing his face on millions of their cans and bottles. Might Coca Cola have reason to keep Rooney? Prostitute tells of Rooney sex texts BRITISH TOURISTS DEAD IN PLANE CRASHA light aircraft has crashed in Peru killing six people, including four British tourists, on a sightseeing tour of the Nazca Lines, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the south-west of the country. The Cessna plane crashed shortly after take-off with reports indicating that engine trouble was to blame. The two Peruvian pilots also died. PETE & JORDAN PREPARE FOR BATTLEFormer car-crash tabloid couple Peter Andre and Jordan are due in the High Court on Thursday when Andre sues his ex-wife for slander and libel, and according to the News of the World it's going to get "very messy". The paper has seen the writ served on former topless model Jordan (real name Katie Price) in which Andre demands damages and an injunction after allegations he was unfaithful during their marriage. Katie Price & Peter Andre blame each other for split GROUND ZERO MOSQUE UNVEILEDThe project developer for the controversial Muslim community centre planned close to the site of the 9/11 terror attacks has said it will be "a marriage between Islamic architecture and New York City". Speaking as an architect's computer graphics were released to show the centre's design, Sharif El-Gamal said he believed it will be two or three years before construction begins. Mayor Bloomberg defends ground zero mosque plan ONCE A GEORDIE...Cheryl Cole has declared she'll never ditch her distinctive Geordie accent just to please American TV bosses. The pop princess is expected to be a judge on next year's American X Factor and while she admits some may find her accent "weird" she won't be taking elocution lessons. "I'd never change my accent, it's part of who I am," she says. Will Americans get the Cheryl Cole factor? CLARKE WARNS OF DOUBLE DIPFormer chancellor Ken Clarke has painted a bleak picture of the state of the British economy as the Tory Party Conference opens in Birmingham. Clarke says he remains pessimistic about a recovery, warning: "I don't rule out the risk of a double-dip recession caused by some fresh wave of global fear and crisis." sven-goran eriksson returnsFormer England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson will be unveiled as Leicester City's new manager on Sunday after agreeing a two-year deal to replace Paulo Sousa. Eriksson has experience of league football having coached Man City and Notts County, but he'll need to be on the ball at Leicester: the club have gone through 15 managers since 2004. CLIMATE FILM GETS THE BOOTA four-minute film written by Richard Curtis with the aim of making us reduce our carbon footprints has been withdrawn from circulation. Released on Friday on the 10:10 environmental website and entitled No Pressure, the film sparked outrage when it depicted a teacher blowing up two schoolchildren for their indifference to reducing carbon emissions. POLES RETURN TO UKNew figures reveal that the number of Poles living in the UK increased by over 50,000 in the first six months of 2010. When Britain was hit by the recession in 2008 many Poles went home, but as the UK economy appears to be on the mend they're returning with 537,000 now resident, up from 484,000 at the end of 2009.

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