South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma says Nelson Mandela’s condition has improved overnight. The former president remains in a critical but stable condition. Mr Mandela’s daughter, meanwhile, has lashed out the media campaigning outside the hospital, describing them as vouchers. 

 

A US grand jury has charged Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with killing four people and using home-made bombs. The 19-year-old is the younger of the two Chechen brothers accused of that attack in April. His older brother was killed in a police shoot-out in the days following the bombing. He faces a possible death penalty if he is convicted.

 

An internal fuel within one of Australia’s biggest bikie gangs has turned violent. A source linked to the common (待定） has told the ABC that scores of bikies from a rival faction ambushed the meeting in the new club house in Sydney’s south on Wednesday night. The source says several men were bashed. One later turned up at a hospital with her broken jaw, nose and ribs.