Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 11 Jun 2018

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Singapore yesterday,
followed a few hours later by US President Donald Trump. The two
men are scheduled to hold a summit  in the island
city-state tomorrow, the first time a sitting US
president will have met a North Korean leader. Cameras caught Kim
being driven through Singapore, with bodyguards jogging
alongside.

The resignation of Sir Martin Sorrell, the man behind the
world’s biggest advertising firm, in April was promted by an
allegation that he used a company credit card to pay a prostitute
around £300 in London,according to The Times. A friend of the
former chief executive told the newspaper that Sorrell denies the
claim and that it was made by a disgruntled former employee of
WPP.

MPs from several parties have called for police and select
committees to investigate links between millionaire Arron Banks,
the UKIP donor who bankrolled the Brexit campaign, and the Russian
government. Banks allegedly met with Russian officials
multiple times in the run-up to the EU referendum. He admits
meeting the Russian ambassador but denies being involved in
espionage.

US President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter once again to
insult some of his closest allies, after provoking anger by
refusing to endorse the conclusions reached at the G7 summit.
Responding to complaints from Germany, France, Canada and others,
Trump protested that the US is badly served by free trade
deals.

A ship carrying 629 migrants is stranded in the Mediterranean
after Italy’s new right-wing interior minister, Matteo Salvini,
closed the country’s ports to the vessel. The ship, managed by
European charity SOS Mediterranee, picked up the migrants from
smaller boats. Salvini says they should be taken to Malta, but the
Maltese government insists that the migrants are Italy’s
problem.

After the hottest May on record, Britain is set for a long, hot
summer, the Met Office says. The recent good weather is expected to
continue for the next three months – after an initial “blip”
of rainier conditions over the next week to ten days. Last month
was the sunniest May since records began in 1929, with 245.4 hours
of sunshine.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will visit Australia, New
Zealand, Fiji and Tonga this autumn, in their first official
overseas tour after getting married. The Invictus Games for
ex-servicemen, of which Harry is a patron, will be held in Sydney
in October, and the couple have been invited to attend and to visit
Australia and New Zealand by the two nation’s governments.

Sainsbury’s is to sell vegan burgers that ooze “blood” when
cut open, placing them in the chiller section alongside real meat
burgers as part of a trial targeting so-called “flexitarian”
eaters. The UK is thought to have around 22 million flexitarians –
people who enjoy meat but are also keen to eat less of it. The
trial will take place in 400 of Sainsbury’s stores.

Students have been warned to be careful when they pose for
selfies, or other photographs, holding their new degree
certificates this graduation season. A qualification-checking
service says forgers are finding it easier to fake certificates
because many graduands post high-quality digital pictures of
themselves with their degrees online.

The electric car revolution is racing ahead, with some of
the world’s biggest manufacturers set to enter the EV market with
exciting new vehicles.