Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 14 Jul 2011

published 14 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. MPS TO QUIZ REBEKAH BROOKS, MURDOCHS SUMMONSEDRebekah Brooks has agreed to answer questions from MPs on the phone-hacking scandal next Tuesday. James and Rupert Murdoch declined to attend, prompting the Commons media committee to take the unusual step of issuing a summons. Meanwhile, Neil Wallis, the former executive editor of the News of the World, has been arrested as part of the inquiry into News International. Can James Murdoch still take over from his dad? Coulson’s deputy editor arrested over hacking First reaction: Murdoch humiliated as News Corp kills BSkyB bid SUICIDE BOMBER STRIKES AT KARZAI MEMORIALAfghan president Hamid Karzai made an emotional appeal to the Taliban at the funeral of his half brother Ahmed Wali Karzai, who was assassinated by the organisation on Tuesday. He pleaded with them to stop "destroying" Afghanistan. But hours later a suicide bomber killed at least three people at a Kandahar mosque during a memorial service to Karzai. Ahmed Wali Karzai: ‘drug dealer’ Nato could rely on Robert Fox: If we’re not careful, WW3 is imminent EARTHQUAKE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNELThe biggest earthquake for almost 300 years struck in the English Channel on Thursday morning. The quake, which measured 3.9 on the Richeter Scale, struck at a depth of 10km just south of Portsmouth. Some buildings shook but there were no calls to the emergency services. The British Geological Survey said it was the largest quake in the area since 1734. AUSTEN MANUSCRIPT SELLS FOR £1MThe manuscript of an unfinished Jane Austen novel has sold at auction for almost £1m, more than three times its estimated value. The 68-page handwritten draft of The Watsons, which was never published, sold for £993,250. Also in the sale, the earliest codified rules of football belonging to Sheffield FC and dating from 1859 fetched £881,250. MUMBAI BOMBS KILL 18Eighteen people have been killed and dozens more injured after India's financial capital Mumbai was hit by three bomb blasts. The explosions hit a bus stop in the crowded neighbourhood of Dadar, a jewellery shop in Zaveri Bazaar and the bustling business district of Opera House in the fourth major terrorist attack there since 2003. RUSBRIDGER: PM'S COULSON STORY 'HIGHLY MISLEADING'Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has issued a statement saying that David Cameron's claim that serious allegations against his former media mogul Andy Coulson were not put before him after they were raised by the newspaper is "highly misleading". The Guardian had discovered that before Coulson worked for Cameron he had hired an investigator who had been charged with conspiracy to murder. The Mole: Cameron’s reputation is on the line over Murdoch crisis MOODYS THREATENS US AAA CREDIT RATINGMoody's has warned it may downgrade the United States' AAA credit rating, saying it cannot rule out the possibility of a "short-lived" debt repayment default. President Barack Obama needs to increase the limit on the amount of money America is allowed to borrow - a limit the country is fast approaching - but Republicans want spending cuts in return for their consent. FIVE KILLED IN LINCOLNSHIRE 'VODKA FACTORY' BLASTFive migrant workers have died after a huge explosion on an industrial estate in Boston, Lincolnshire, amid claims that an illegal vodka factory was the cause of the fireball. Witnesses as far away as five miles heard the blast, which one described as sounding like the "end of the world". A sixth man was seriously injured. ASSANGE 'ROUGHED-UP WOMEN BEFORE SEX'A court has been told that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange "roughed-up" women before sex, tearing clothes and breaking a necklace. Clare Montgommery QC, acting for the Swedish Government which wants to extradite Assange, said he had co-erced the women into sex by physical force or other types of pressure. BRAD AND ANGELINA TO MARRY 'WITHIN WEEKS'Without presenting any solid evidence to back up its claim, American magazine US Weekly claims that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will wed within weeks after their children started to ask them about marriage. Previously, Pitt has said the couple will not tie the not until gay marriage is available in every state in the USA.