BBC News with Julie Candler
The Boston police commissioner says he believes the two men suspected of bombing the city's marathon were planning more attacks. One of the brothers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gun fight with the police during a big manhunt, which ended with the capture of the other, Dzhokhar. Ed Davis said after the gunfight, the police discovered the resources to stike the other targets.
"We have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene, the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had, that they were going to attack other individuals."
The injured brother is being treated at a hospital in Boston which described his condition as serious. Some reports suggest his injuries are so severe he may never be able to speak. Meanwhile the family of the two brothers have told the BBC, that the elder brother was radicalize while he was in the United States.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev visited the Russian Republic of Dagestan last year to see his family who'd moved there from Chechenya. Tamerlan's aunt said that it was clear from long discussion he had with her husband, that he already converted to an extreme version of Islam. Daniel Sandford reports.
Patimat Suleimanova cried several times during the interview, a sign of how much the Boston bombings have affected the family of the men accused of carrying it out. She told me that when the elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev visited Dagestan for six months last year, he had only seen his family. She insisted he could not have met any of the violent insurgence who plagued this part of Russia. She said he clearly become very religious while living in America and some times argued with his family about the best form of Islam.
Syrian opposition per sources say a government offence on the town near Damascus has left many people dead. The sources say the attack on the town of Jdaidet al-Fadl lasted five days with at least 80 people killed. Sebastian Usher reports.
Both government and rebel sources confirmed that Syrian forces had mounted a major offence against Jdaidet al-Fadl in the past few days. Both sides also say the government forces have won the battle for now, but that's all they agree on. The state news agency says simply that the army inflicted heavy losses upon terrorists in the town, its usual description of all rebel fighters. But opposition's sources say women and children were killed, too. One source says dozens were killed over several days, many of them fighters. But another source, the Local Coordination Committees paints an even worse picture, claiming that the Syrian forces carried out a massacre after retaking the town.
The authorities in Nigeria say they've seized a ship carrying 2,500 tons of fuel refined illegally from oil stolen in the Niger Delta. The security forces said the boat was still filling its hold when it was intercepted. The crew abandoned the boat and fled into a mangrove forest when they saw the security forces approaching.
World News from the BBC
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a Somali journalist working for a government television station in the capital Mogadishu. Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh was attacked by three men while he sat outside his home at the end of his working day. He had only returned to Somali four months ago, after several years' study in Uganda. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the killing, but since Mr Rageh worked for a government news channel, suspicion has fallen on al-Shabab militants who've been fighting the authorities.
There has been a second day of protests in the Indian capital Delhi about the recent rape of a five-year-old girl. Demonstrators gathered outside the homes of leading politicians and the police headquarters angry about the way the authorities handle the case. Earlier, the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said his country had vast improvements to make on women's safety. From Delhi, Sanjoy Majumder reports.
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the gruesome assault on a five-year-old girl was a remind of the need to collectively work to root out what he described as depraved behaviour. The child was allegedly abducted last week and then sexually assaulted over a 48-hour long period. Doctors have been treating an intensive care, they announced her condition has shown signs of improvement, and she is conscious. On Saturday, a suspected was arrested in the eastern state of Bihar and brought to the capital to face questioning.
The first Palestinian marathon has taken place in the West Bank. The course spans 21km around the city of Bethlehem, passing through refugee camps and under the shadow of the Israel separation barrier. Organisers could not find an uninterrupted 42km stretch of land for the race, so some 100 runners are attempting the full marathon ran the course twice. Around 400 others ran shorter versions of the race, half Palestinians, half foreigners. A group of Gazan runners were not allowed into the West Bank by Israel.