Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Wednesday 18 May 2011

A review of the investigation of Stephen Lawrence’s murder found the Met Police to be ‘institutionally racist’

published 18 May 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. STEPHEN LAWRENCE: TWO FACE MURDER TRIALTwo men are to face trial for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager who was stabbed to death at a bus stop in south-east London in 1993. One of the accused is Gary Dobson, who was acquitted of murder in a 1996 trial. He now faces trial for a second time after the appeal court ruled there was "compelling" new evidence. He and David Norris have been in custody since last year, but the case could not be reported until now. Stephen Lawrence murder: two men to face trial CLARKE FACES CALLS TO RESIGN OVER RAPE COMMENTSJustice secretary Ken Clarke as at the centre of a political storm over comments he made about rape while explaining new government sentencing guidelines for criminals. He differentiated between types of offence and suggested that date rape was not the same as "the worst rapes". Labour leader Ed Miliband called for his resignation during Prime Minister's Questions. The Mole: calls for Clarke to go after Stone Age rape remark QUEEN VISITS croke park ON SECOND DAY OF VISIT The Queen has visited Croke Park, the sports stadium in Dublin where 14 spectators were killed by British soldiers more than 90 years ago, on the second day of her visit to Ireland. Earlier she and the Duke of Edinburgh turned down the offer of a pint of Guinness when visiting the brewery in Dublin. At a banquet in Dublin Castle tonight she is expected to acknowledge "past difficulties". Irish diehards show their anger as history moves on STRAUSS-KAHN 'to plead consent'Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF head accused of raping a 32-year-old Guinean hotel maid in New York, was last night placed on suicide watch in his cell in Rikers Island jail, with guards checking on him every 15 minutes. He will reportedly claim that the encounter in his hotel room was consensual. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called on him to resign, saying he was "obviously not in a position to run the IMF". Shadow of Polanski hangs over Strauss-Kahn Strauss-Kahn feared he might be stitched up LIBYAN OIL MINISTER IS LATEST TO DEFECtLibyan oil minister Shukri Ghanem has defected, it was reported last night. He is the most senior figure to abandon dictator Col Gaddafi since former foreign minister Moussa Koussa in March. He crossed the border into Tunisia by road and is now in Europe, according to a Transitional National Council spokesman in London. PAKISTAN ARRESTS BIN-LADEN COURIER IN KARACHIThe Pakistani army claimed last night to have arrested a senior Yemeni al-Qaeda leader in Karachi, calling it a "major development". Mohammed Ali Qasim, also known as Abu Suhaib al-Makki, had been working on the Pakistan/Afghan border and was a key courier between Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri. MOTHER OF SCHWARZENEGGER’S LOVECHILD NAMEDThe mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child was identified on a US website last night as his family's former housekeeper Mildred Baena, 50. Inquiries by RadarOnline and the tabloid Star found her son is now 14, that Schwarzenegger's wife Maria Shriver was then pregnant with their youngest, Christopher, and that Baena quit the job in January this year. Arnie: I fathered child with member of household staff OLYMPIC TORCH ROUTE THROUGH BRITAIN ANNOUNCEDThe Olympic torch will arrive in Britain from Greece on May 19 next year before being carried on an 8,000 mile journey around the country by 8,000 torch bearers. The organisers have announced the first 74 locations on the route, which begins in Land's End and will pass through every nation in the UK, including the islands of Shetland and Jersey. The torch will arrive at the Olympic Stadium on July 27. FIFA boss: CORRUPTION INQUIRY IS 'SOUR GRAPES'Fifa president Sepp Blatter yesterday suggested that English officials had made allegations of corruption in the way the right to host the World Cup was awarded because of sour grapes over losing their bid for the 2018 tournament. He said there is a "sort of stubbornness against football and Fifa. Of course there is the fact that England didn't get the World Cup." Fifa allegations down to sour grapes, says Blatter PRINCESS BEAtrice HAT auction bids top £18,000Bids for the 'pretzel' hat worn by Princess Beatrice at the Royal Wedding reached £18,000 on eBay last night, with five days still to go. The 22-year-old princess decided to auction the Philip Treacy creation after it became an internet sensation. She will donate the proceeds to Unicef and Children in Crisis.