Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 21 Jul 2011

published 21 July 2011

Our popular news catch-up service is posted Monday to Friday at 8.0am. You can rely on it to keep you up to date through the working day with the main news talking points. GLOBAL STOCK RISES AFTER GREEK DEBT DEALStock markets around the world enjoyed a lift today after Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy struck a deal early this morning on rescuing Greece and the euro from financial ruin. It is understood they reached a compromise on the losses that the banks which are Greece's private creditors must take. TWO 'BRITISH TALIBAN' CAPTURED IN HELMANDTroops in Afghanistan have captured two British Taliban members, /Sun/. Previous radio intercepts have suggested that some young British Muslims are fighting with the insurgents but would be the first capture of any such suspects. The Foreign Office said only: "We can confirm that two British nationals have been detained in Afghanistan." 'British Taliban' capture is a first ATLANTIS TOUCHES DOWN AFTER FINAL FLIGHTAtlantis landed safely at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida this morning, bringing to an end the USA's 30-year space shuttle programme. Its crew of four - commander Chris Ferguson, pilot Doug Hurley and mission specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim - spent almost 13 days in space on a re-supply mission to the International Space Station. PRINCE ANDREW TO STEP DOWN AS TRADE ENVOYReports suggest that the Duke of York is to announce he is stepping down from his role a trade ambassador to the UK. Andrew's position was questioned earlier this year after it emerged he was carrying on a friendship with the convicted American sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein and had entertained the ousted president of Tunisia's son at Buckingham Palace. CAPTAIN 'BOB DIAMOND', MORE THAN JUST A BANKERBob Diamond, the controversial head of Barclay's Bank, is at the centre of a security row involving David Cameron after it emerged that he was allowed into the cockpit of a Virgin Atlantic flight as it brought the PM home from South Africa. Anti-terror laws mean no-one should be permitted on the flight deck and Virgin has been rebuked by the Department of Transport. "HITLER'S DEPUTY, RUDOLPH HESS, IS EXHUMEDThe remains of Rudolph Hess, Adolf Hitler's war-time deputy famous for his unauthorised one-man flight to Scotland in an attempt to broker peace, have been exhumed and cremated 24 years after his death. The high-ranking Nazi's grave had become a magnet for neo-Nazis so his ashes will be scattered from a plane over the ocean. Hitler's deputy exhumed in Bavaria COULSON 'NEVER UNDERWENT RIGOROUS VETTING'Andy Coulson was never subjected to the rigorous government security checks that his predecessors as Downing Street media adviser - Alastair Campbell, Dave Hill and Michael Ellam - had to go through, the Guardian reports today. The former News of the World editor, since arrested on suspicion of phone hacking, was granted only mid-level security clearance, thus avoiding "developed vetting". LINDsAY HAWKER'S KILLED JAILED FOR LIFETatsuya Ichihashi, the Japanese man who raped and killed 22-year-old British teacher Lindsay Hawker in Tokyo in 2007, was today jailed for life. Ichihashi had tried to hide her body in a bathtub filled with sand on the balcony of his flat. Hawker's father Bill had asked the court to show "no mercy" to his daughter's killer. TIGER WOODS CADDY 'SHOCKED' AT BEING FIREDTiger Woods's caddy of 13 years, Steve Williams, abandoned his legendary loyalty for the first time yesterday after being told that he was fired. He was "shocked", and added: "Given the circumstances of the last 18 months working through Tiger's scandal, I am very disappointed." Woods wrote on his website: "I think it's time for a change." Tiger Woods sacks caddie after 13 years of success CAMERON HAD ONLY 'APPROPRIATE' TALKS ON BSKYB BIDPrime Minister David Cameron was forced to concede during yesterday's Commons debate that he had talked to News International executives about their bid to take over BSkyB. But he insisted all such conversations were "appropriate" because he never conveyed the content of the talks to Jeremy Hunt, the Cabinet minister handling the takeover. The Mole: PM forced to come clean - sort of - on BSkyB chat