Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 9 Jun 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. KATE MIDDLETON AND BLAIR 'TARGETS OF HACKING'The Duchess of Cambridge (above) and former PM Tony Blair were named in the Commons yesterday as new victims in the News of the World hacking scandal. MP Tom Watson identified Jonathan Rees as a second PI hacking phones for the News of the World and the Mirror Group. Phone hacking: Middleton and Blair may be victims ARCHBISHOP ATTACKS TOUGH COALITION POLICIESThe Archbishop of Canterbury attacks the coalition government for "radical policies for which no one voted" in the New Statesman, which he has guest-edited. Dr Rowan Williams says the "anxiety and anger" felt by voters is a result of the coalition's failure to expose its policies to "proper public argument". Archbishop 'wrong' to say coalition has no mandate GADDAFI WANTED BY COURT FOR INCITING RAPEThe International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said at the UN that he wants to add 'ordering rape as a weapon of repression' to a raft of allegations of human rights crimes against Libya's Col Gaddafi. There was evidence that Viagra had been issued to troops, he claimed. Alexander Cockburn: does Nato have any pretext for its onslaught? MAYOR BORIS SHOCKS 'RAMBO' IN POLICE RAIDLondon mayor Boris Johnson so shocked an alleged drug dealer called Rambo yesterday when he burst through the door flanked by police in bullet-proof vests that he was met with the words: "What the fuck are you doing here?" The answer: publicising the Met Police's Operation Target, and himself. No inquest into Dr David kelly's suicideThe attorney general Dominic Grieve has ruled out holding an inquest into the circumstances surrounding the apparent suicide of Dr David Kelly, the Iraq war whistleblower, in 2003. Grieve said the evidence of suicide is "overwhelmingly strong", but campaigners are likely to pursue a judicial review of his decision. INTEREST RATES UNCHANGED ONCE AGAINThe Bank of England has left interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent for the 27th month in a row. The decision comes despite an inflation rate of 4.5 per cent, which is more than double the bank's target. Rates have been kept low to try and encourgage the faltering economic recovery. NATASHA 'HAD AFFAIRS WITH FOUR MAN UTD PLAYERS'Natasha Giggs, 28, whose marriage to Rhodri Giggs foundered when she revealed that she had had an eight-year affair with his brother Ryan, also had sex encounters with three other Man Utd players, the Sun reveals today. They are named as Dwight Yorke, Danny Simpson and Phil Bardsley. BLAIR CALLS FOR ELECTED PRESIDENT OF EUROPETony Blair calls today for Europe to institute an elected president with a power block of 386 million in 27 countries, enabling it to stand up to the emerging 21st Century powers of China and Brazil. Europe now needs an agenda of "power not peace," he tells the Times. He does not say if he would run for the job. CONGRESSMAN WEINER'S WIFE REPORTED PREGNANT 'Sexting' Congressman Anthony Weiner's 35-year-old wife Huma Abedin, who is Hillary Clinton's aide de camp, was reported yesterday to be in the early stages of pregnancy after 11 months of marriage. Pressure on Weiner to resign increased with the appearance of another 'sexted' photo, this time without the underpants. TEA OBRECHT WINS ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTIONSerbian-American author Tea Obreht, whose family fled Belgrade during the Bosnian war, has won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife. At 24, she is the youngest winner of the £30,000 award for women's fiction. The judges hailed her as a "truly exciting new talent".

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