Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 12 Jul 2011

published 12 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. THOUSANDS YET TO BE CONTACTED OVER NOTW HACKINGMet Police assistant commissioner John Yates has told the home affairs committee looking into phone hacking that he is 99 per cent sure his phone was hacked in 2005. Sue Akers, leading the new investigation, said only 170 of the 4,000 people listed in Glen Mulcaire's notebooks had been contacted. Rebekah Brooks and the Murdochs have been invited to appear before a committee next Tuesday as News Corp launches a $5bn share buyback scheme. Murdoch’s comeuppance will have downsides too Why Murdoch could sell all his London papers BSkyB takeover: will Murdoch have to give up? GORDON BROWN SAVAGES NEWS INTERNATIONALGordon Brown (above) has launched a savage attack on News International, accusing the Sunday Times of working with "the criminal underworld" and implying that the Sun used illegal methods to find out about his son's medical condition. He said the company used "ruthless tactics" to exploit the vulnerable "for political power and commercial gain." The Mole: Cameron’s reputation is on the line over Murdoch crisis SURPRISE FALL IN INFLATION RATESummer sales have contributed to a surprise fall in the rate of inflation. The Consumer Prices Index dropped to 4.2 per cent from 4.5 per cent. The Retail Price Index also fell 0.2 per cent to 5 per cent. The ONS said reduced prices for games, toys and hobbies, as well as for clothing and footwear was responsible. Surprise UK inflation drop as shops slash prices AFGHAN president's brother assassinatedAfghan president Hamid Karzai's half-brother has been assassinated in Kandahar. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for killing Ahmad Wali Karzai, who was shot twice by his own head of security. His death leaves a dangerous power vacuum in the south of Afghanistan. Ahmed Wali Karzai: ‘drug dealer’ Nato could rely on CIA USED FAKE VACCINATION SCHEME TO TRAP BIN LADENThe US set up a bogus vaccination scheme in Abbottabad, recruiting a senior Pakistani doctor to run it across the city, hoping his nurses could get into the compound to vaccinate young relatives of the al-Qaeda boss living there and collect their DNA, confirming Bin Laden's identity. It's not known if the scheme worked. WIKILEAKS: ASSANGE LAUNCHes extradition APPEALWikileaks founder Julian Assange has begun his appeal against attempts to extradite him to Sweden, where he is charged with sexual offences. His lawyers told the High Court his arrest warrant was "flawed" as it failed to fairly describe the claims against him, and said that there was a mismatch between the English and Swedish law over sexual offences. TURMOIL IN EU MARKETS AFTER GERMANY SAYS 'NO'Italian and Spanish bond yields soared yesterday to levels which threaten the sustainability of the countries' finances after Germany ruled out beefing up the EU's bail-out fund in order to buy bonds from both nations in an attempt to halt the 'contagion'. An EU summit yesterday ended with no decision on how to help. Eurozone heads meet amid fears of Italy bail-out POLICE INJURED IN BELFAST VIOLENCEA bus was hijacked and driven at police in Belfast during riots on Monday night, and 22 police officers were injured in clashes ahead of the loyalist marching season in Northern Ireland. Crowds of nationalists also threw bricks and petrol bombs at police, and 51 plastic bullets were fired in response. SCHWARZENEGGER RETURNS TO ACTINGScandal-hit ex-governator Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced a return to the acting career he put on hold, first to be governor of California for ten years and then as he dealt with the revelation he had fathered a child by his housekeeper. He will star in The Last Stand, an English-language debut for Korean director Kim Ji-woon. Schwarzenegger ‘to star’ as ‘broken-down guy’ PRINCE AND PRINCESS HONEYMOON IN SEPARATE HOTELSPrince Albert of Monaco and his "runaway" bride, Princess Charlene, spent their honeymoon in separate hotels in Durban, ten miles apart, the Sun claims, abandoning their £4,000-a-night honeymoon suite at the luxurious Oyster Box Hotel. The couple cut the honeymoon short, saying they had "urgent business in Monaco".