Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 25 May 2017

Two men were arrested in Manchester this morning and a
controlled explosion was carried out overnight, as police hunt a
terror network which helped Manchester bomber Salman Abedi kill 22
on Sunday night. Seventeen of the victims have now been named,
including 14-year-old Eilidh MacLeod from the Scottish island of
Barra.

The Prime Minister will meet Donald Trump at a Nato summit
in Brussels today and has said she will raise the issue of leaks
about the Manchester bombing with him. There has been a stream of
crucial intelligence about the attack leaked by US officials to the
US media, including forensic photographs taken at the seen of the
blast.

More than half of Britons believe that the presence of
ethnic minorities threatens UK culture, a survey suggests. The
Aurora Humanitarian Index 2017 also found one quarter of people
think immigrants take jobs away from Britons and one third think
they take more from society than they contribute. Support for aid
is also in decline.

For the first time since Donald Trump became US President,
an American warship has sailed close by an artificial island built
by China in the South China Sea. Mischief Reef is claimed by China
but other nearby nations dispute its right to the territory. The US
occasionally sails past in order to assert its right to sail
international waters.

Manchester United beat Ajax 2-0 in Stockholm last night to
win the Europa League. French midfielder Paul Pogba, who scored the
first of the goals, said: “We played for the people who died [in
the Manchester terror attack].” Manager Jose Mourinho said he would
“obviously” give up the trophy to restore the lives of the 22
victims.

Academics say that the cost of the Tory manifesto pledge
to give every primary school child in England a free breakfast
could be more than treble the £60m they have set aside for it. The
plan also includes scrapping free lunches at infant schools in
England, which the government says would provide a £650m saving
nationally.

Two previously unknown poems by the American poet Sylvia
Plath have been discovered in an archive. The poems survive only as
impressions in a sheet of carbon paper – used to copy writing onto
a second sheet of paper – and had to be carefully deciphered from
photographs. Academics think they are probably early
works.

Motor trade body the SMMT says car production fell at its
fastest rate in more than two and a half years last month, with a
total of 122,116 cars built, 18% less than in April last year. The
SMMT said a later Easter bank holiday had reduced the number of
productive days in the period. New car sales were down 20% in
April, year-on-year.

A joke caption written by a Twitter user for a picture of
singer Rihanna and actor Lupita Nyong’o watching a fashion show has
inspired a Hollywood movie. The caption said the pair looked as if
they were in a heist movie together. The pair liked the joke – and
now the film is set to be made. It is hoped Selma’s Ava DuVernay
will direct.