Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 27 Sep 2016

1. Clinton keeps her cool during TV debate

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton held the first TV debate of the US presidential race last night. Trump's freewheeling style "spun wildly out of control", says The Guardian, while Clinton kept her cool, pressing the Republican candidate on his "long record of… racist behaviour" and his claim that President Barack Obama was not born in the US.

2. Colombia and Farc sign historic peace deal

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State John Kerry were among 2,500 delegates to witness the signing of a peace deal between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Rodrigo Londono, the leader of the Farc rebel group, putting an end to a 50-year war. Londono apologised to "all victims".

3. Sam Allardyce faces FA investigation

England football manager Sam Allardyce is facing an investigation by the FA after he was filmed in a newspaper sting operation apparently offering advice on how to get around rules on transfer payments. Undercover reporters from the Daily Telegraph posed as Far Eastern businessmen for the secret filming earlier this summer.

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4. 'Water jets' discovered on Jupiter moon

One of Jupiter's moons may be spurting plumes of water into space, say scientists, raising the prospect that samples could be collected and tested for signs of life without the need to land on the planet and drill into its icy crust. Europa is about the size of our own moon but at its warmest, only reaches -160C.

5. Johnson praises Turkish washing machine

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson took a typically idiosyncratic approach to his first official visit to Turkey, praising his "beautiful, very well-functioning Turkish washing machine" as he met the country's EU affairs minister. His trip will also see him meeting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, about whom he wrote an offensive poem in May.

6. Corbyn sets aside Trident objection

Labour's anti-Trident leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday allowed his shadow defence minister, Clive Lewis, to say the party will support the renewal of the UK's nuclear deterrent. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the agreement was meant to "steady the ship" in the party. Lewis earlier appeared to react angrily to last-minute changes made to his speech.

7. Washington shooting suspect admits attack

US prosecutors say a 20-year-old man has admitted to a murderous gun rampage in a shopping mall in Washington state on Saturday. Arcan Cetin was arrested less than 24 hours after the shootings, in which five people died. His stepfather says the Turkish-born man has a history of mental health issues. Terrorism has not been ruled out.

8. US shale gas shipped to Scotland

The first consignment of fracked US shale gas has arrived in the UK to be processed at the Grangemouth refinery in Scotland. The shipment has caused controversy as fracking is banned north of the border. Grangemouth has struggled to find the raw materials it needs in recent years as North Sea oil declines.

9. Paris approves nudist park plan

French politicians have voted to allow the first nudist camp to be set up in Paris. Thought to be a first for a capital city, the secluded area, in one of two wooded areas on the edge of the city, could be in use by next summer. France has more naturist beaches and holiday camps than any other country.

10. Briefing: Women's suicide rate on the rise

Women are not getting the mental health care they need, campaigners warn, as the rate of female suicide rises. "With mental health being so gendered, it follows that women who face mental illness need different support to men," says Katharine Sacks-Jones, the director of Agenda, the alliance for women and girls at risk. "Without the right help, many women spiral from crisis to crisis, living lives marked by misery."

Women's suicide rates on the rise