Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Sunday 30 Oct 2016

1. Clinton attacks FBI for email intervention

Hillary Clinton's campaign team has come out fighting after the FBI announced yesterday that it will re-open the investigation into her supposedly lax attitude to email security when she was Secretary of State. The Clinton camp said the FBI's inervention 11 days before the election was "unprecedented" and "deeply troubling".

2. Powerful earthquake hits central Italy

Another powerful earthquake has struck near Norcia in central Italy, two months after a massive tremor killed almost 300 people and destroyed several towns in the same area. There are no immediate reports of casualties or damage but the quake was 6.6 magnitude and just 0.9 miles deep. Tremors last week caused serious damage.

3. 'Cruel' disability benefits to be overhauled

One of the most controversial changes of David Cameron's government is to be overhauled. Work Capability Assessment, which decides how much financial support people with disabilities get while looking for work, has been repeatedly called "cruel". Iain Duncan Smith's successor, Damian Green, launches a consultation on Monday.

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4. Taxpayer will pay Hinkley costs

Secret government papers show the taxpayer will pick up the cost of storing nuclear waste at the mooted Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, if it rises substantially, says The Guardian. The documents, released after a freedom of information request, show the government promising Chinese and French investors their costs will be capped.

5. Iceland Pirates gain on Independence party

Iceland's general election seems to be too close for an outright victory, after initial counting. The anti-corruption Pirate party has made substantial gains on the ruling centre-right Independence party, which has around 40%, potentially leaving the newly-established, liberal, pro-European Regeneration party in the role of kingmaker.

6. Australia to bar boat migrants for life

Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, has unveiled proposals to ban migrants caught trying to reach the country in boats from ever being able to enter. The tough new plans, to be put before Australia's parliament later this week, would institute a lifetime ban on visas. Boat migrants are already blocked from being resettled in Australia.

7. Ipswich killer's father urges him to confess

The father of Steve Wright, who is serving a whole life term for the murder of five women in Ipswich 10 years ago, has urged his son to confess to the crimes. Conrad Wright, 80, said he could never forgive his son for the killings. Steve Wright admitted having sex with four of the five, who were selling sex, but denied their murders.

8. Nigel Farage could be given peerage

Nigel Farage, currently back in charge of Ukip as a temporary measure while the anti-EU and anti-immigration party holds a second leadership contest, could become Lord Farage. All three remaining candidates to take over from the 52-year-old have said they will seek to get him a peerage, if Ukip is offered seats in the House of Lords.

9. Opera house panic over cremation ashes

New York's world-famous Metropolitan Opera House was evacuated yesterday during an intermission in the opera Guillaume Tell, after a man spread a white powder around the orchestra pit. There were fears of a terrorist incident but police later said an "individual from out of town" had scattered his late opera mentor's ashes in the pit.

10. Briefing: The best books of 2016, so far

Critics are enjoying a bumper year for books, with a string of new

releases from established authors and talented newcomers. Zadie Smith,

Yann Martel, Ali Smith and Julian Barnes are among the big names with

new works on the market.

Best books of 2017: 24 stand-out novels