Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Sunday 16 Sep 2012

A Nato air strike has killed between five and eight civilians in eastern Afghanistan's Laghman province. Local officials say eight women were killed in the attack. Earlier today, four Nato soldiers were killed in an attack thought to have been carried out by Afghan police.

The United States is withdrawing all non-essential diplomatic staff and their families from Sudan and Tunisia after protests against an anti-Islam film made in America. The state department has also encouraged US citizens in Tunisa to leave the country. Sudan has declined a request from the US to send its own troops to protect the embassy.

The Irish Daily Star has published photographs of Kate Middleton sunbathing topless in France. The newspaper's joint owners, Northern and Shell and Independent News and Media, say they had no prior knowledge of the decision to publish. Northern and Shell chairman Richard Desmond says he is "very angry" and is "taking immediate steps to close down the joint venture".

Some 41% of British voters would be more likely to back a party that promised to stop all immigration and 37% would be more likely to support a political party that promised to reduce the number of Muslims in Britain, according to a new YouGov poll. Just 28% said they would be less likely to vote for a party promising to stop immigration.

Three men, including 22-year-old rugby star Nevin Spence, were killed in an accident on a farm in Northern Ireland on Saturday. Four people fell into a slurry tank. A woman was pulled alive from the tank. The two men who died alongside Spence in the accident in Hillsborough, Co Down, are believed to be his brother and father.