Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 27 Sep 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... DAVID MILIBAND 'MAY QUIT POLITICS' As Ed Miliband attends the Labour Party conference as leader, his elder brother is deciding whether to stand for a cabinet position – and may even quit politics, according to the BBC’s Nick Robinson. Meanwhile, union leader Paul Kenny said: "New Labour is gone. It is a product of history. It can go in Madame Tussaud’s". Ed Miliband needs to lose the ‘Red Ed’ tag fast Ed Miliband’s leadership win: What they’re saying BRITISH AID WORKER KIDNAPPED IN AFGHANISTANA British woman in her thirties working for US aid organisation Development Alternatives International has been abducted in eastern Afghanistan. The woman and her three Afghan colleagues were kidnapped from two un-armoured saloon cars yesterday. Her name has not been made public and she is not thought to be married. DIANA’S DESIGNER CATHERINE WALKER DIESFrench-born couturier Catherine Walker has died at 65 after suffering cancer. She was best known for many of the gowns and suits worn for public appearances by Diana, Princess of Wales (above, in a Walker suit). The Princess was even buried in one of her creations. Discreet and unwilling to capitalise on her royal association, Walker avoided the limelight. KIM JONG-UN TO BE THE NEW KIM JONG-ILNorth Korean dictator Kim Jong-il is expected to use a rare gathering of the country’s communist party tomorrow to hand over power to his youngest son, Kim Jong-un. The national gathering could last for days or weeks: the last time the party met was in 1980 – and on that occasion, Jong-il was announced as successor to his own father. CALL GIRL 'CAN IDENTIFY' BECKHAM The saga continues of the Bosnian-born prostitute being sued by David Beckham for alleging she slept with him. Irma Nici now claims she can prove her story by identifying “distinguishing characteristics” of Beckham’s physical appearance not known to the wider public. She has provided no evidence so far to support any of her claims and Beckham is launching a £16m libel suit. Hooker slur: ‘Say it to my face,’ asks Beckham United blow their chanceWayne Rooney put in another subdued performance as Manchester United became the latest big club to drop points on a weekend of surprises in the Premier League. Alex Ferguson's men twice had to come from behind to salvage a draw against unfashionable Bolton. Rivals Chelsea and Arsenal both lost on Saturday. Manchester United fluff their lines at Bolton CHLOE LEAVES X FACTOR Chloe Mafia, real name Chloe Heald, the X Factor contestant who has been arrested 140 times and sells sex has failed to make it through to the next round of the show. Some papers are speculating the judges may have been swayed by a video which appeared yesterday allegedly showing the teenage mother taking cocaine. Will Americans get The Cheryl Cole Factor? WORM INFECT IRAN’S NUCLEAR PLANTA computer virus, the most sophisticated ‘worm’ yet created, has infected the personal computers of staff at Iran’s first nuclear facility. It can be used to control systems remotely and has infected 60,000 PCs in the country, suggesting Iran is being targeted deliberately. Iranian nuclear experts met last week to discuss the crisis. BRA LADY HOLDS HER OWNMichelle Mone, the Glaswegian who made her fortune inventing the Ultimo bra, has taken the unusual step of modelling her own gear. At the age of 38, and proud of losing six stone over the past three years, Mone has joined a list including Jordan, Kelly Brook and Penny Lancaster as an Ultimo model, posing for a set of photographs. KARAOKE MAN WINS A MILLION DUMPLINGSAn American has won 1,000,000 Russian dumplings after being given the audience award at the World Karaoke Championships in Russia. Telephone engineer Edward Pimentel failed to win over the judges, but wooed the public with his R&B classics. Organisers say if he eats 100 dumplings a day it will take him 27 years to finish them.

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