Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Tuesday 23 May 2017

1. Manchester terror attack: Eight-year-old among victims

An eight-year-old girl and and a teenage student are among the 22 people killed in a suicide bomb attack following a concert by US singer Ariana Grande at Manchester Arena last night. Police say a lone male attacker detonated an improvised device and is thought to have died. A further 59 people were injured in the blast.

Manchester terror attack: Politicians and pop stars united in grief

2. Manchester attack: Parties suspend election campaigning

Election campaigning has been suspended by all the main political parties today as a mark of respect for the victims of last night's Manchester Arena bombing. Theresa May has cancelled a campaign event to chair a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee, while Labour's Jeremy Corbyn said he was "horrified" by the attack. The SNP has postponed today's planned launch of its manifesto.

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3. Oil firm bosses give £390,000 to Tories

Senior oil executives have given a total of £390,000 to the Conservative Party under the leadership of Theresa May, The Guardian reports today, with three industry leaders having had dinner with the Prime Minister or a senior Tory minister since she took office. The Tory manifesto promises "unprecedented" support for the oil and gas industry if it wins the general election.

4. Actor Roger Moore dies aged 89

James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore has died aged 89 after a "a short but brave battle with cancer", his family has announced. He played the famous British spy in seven Bond films including Live and Let Die and A View to a Kill between 1973 and 1985. Moore also starred in 1960s TV series The Persuaders and The Saint, and in latter years performed humanitarian work for Unicef.

5. NHS England overspent by £770m in 2016

NHS trusts in England overspent by a total of £770m last year, £190m more than the target the government had hoped for. However, without £1.8bn of bailout funding, the deficit would have been around £2.5bn, above the previous year's overspend of £2.45bn, says figures from the Health Service Journal.

6. US MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden dies aged 35

US MotoGP champion Nicky Hayden has died at the age of 35, five days after he was hit by a car while training on his bicycle in Italy. He suffered severe brain damage and other serious injuries in the crash in Rimini on the Adriatic coast. The 30-year-old driver of the car has been questioned by the authorities.

7. Raids in Manchester after terror attack

Police investigating the Manchester terror attack today arrested a 23-year-old man in Chorlton. Detectives and bomb disposal soldiers were involved in raids on properties in the Fallowfield and Whalley Range areas of the city. A controlled explosion was carried out in Fallowfield. Police know the identity of the suicide bomber but have yet to reveal it.

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8. Rodrigo Duterte in Moscow to meet 'hero' Putin

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, who has overseen a wave of state-sanctioned murder since taking office and boasted of killing drug addicts himself, is in Moscow today for a five-day Russian trip on which he will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Duterte has called Putin his "favourite hero". Last year he called Barack Obama a "son of a bitch".

9. Mice born from frozen 'space sperm'

Japanese researchers have bred healthy mice using sperm which had been frozen and then taken into space, proving that the near-weightless conditions were no bar to reproduction. They suggest that sperm banks could be created on the Moon in case of disaster on Earth. A 1988 experiment showed that sperm swim faster in low gravity.

10. Briefing: The Green Party manifesto

The Green Party launched its election manifesto yesterday, dubbing it a 'green guarantee' and promising to work towards introducing a universal basic income – a policy The Guardian says is "an attempt to outflank Labour on the left".

The manifesto was revealed by the party's co-leaders, Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley, in central London.

Bartley pledged to build a "confident and caring Britain and a future that we can all be proud of" while Lucas said the manifesto contained "big, bold ideas to create a confident and caring country".

Green Party manifesto 2017: Key policies of the 'green guarantee'