WATERTOWN, Mass. — Police arrested the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing here Friday night after a day-long manhunt led them to the wounded man hiding in a back yard.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was found after a resident in Watertown saw blood on a boat parked behind his home. The man looked under a plastic cover and saw a man inside the boat, covered in blood.
Officers responded, and they exchanged gunfire with the suspect and threw “flash-bang” grenades into the boat in an attempt to flush him out. The suspect was later seized by a SWAT team after he did not respond to negotiators. Police said Tsarnaev was in serious condition at a hospital.
Pier Luigi Bersani resignation plunges Italian politics into further chaos
Democratic party leader quits after both candidates he backed for presidency fail to garner enough votes in secret ballots
The chaos gripping Italian politics deepened on Friday night as centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani announced his imminent resignation, lashing out at a rebellion which saw off both his candidates for president and exposed the deep divides within his party.
An angry and bitter Bersani told MPs he would stand down as leader of the Democratic party (PD) as soon as parliament managed to elect a new head of state – a contest that is crucial in deciding how and if Italycan extract itself from political gridlock.
The dramatic announcement came after the two men the PD head had backed for president – former union leader Franco Marini and two-time prime minister Romano Prodi – failed to attract the necessary number of votes in ballots.
China: Landslides hamper rescue operations after earthquake kills dozens in Sichuan
A powerful earthquake jolted China's Sichuan province today near where a devastating quake struck five years ago, leaving at least 41 dead and more than 600 injured.
State media warned that the casualty toll could climb sharply.
The quake - measured by China's seismological bureau at magnitude-7 and the US Geological Survey at 6.6 - struck the steep hills of Lushan county shortly after 8am local time.
It toppled buildings, many of them older brick structures, while tiles fell from roofs, and pictures dropped from walls, sending people into the streets in their underwear and wrapped in blankets
IRAQ
Iraq's election campaigns marked by attacks
Overshadowed by suicide bombings, Iraq's provincial election campaigns are wrapping up. Saturday elections are seen as a test for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who faces massive criticism from both Sunnis and Shiites.
Campaigning for elections in Iraq can be life-threatening. Fourteen candidates running in provincial elections scheduled for Saturday (20.04.2013) have been killed. The number of bombings aimed at security personnel and civilians has risen dramatically of late, with 50 people killed on Monday alone. Al Qaeda supporters wanting to disrupt the elections are presumed to be responsible for the terrorist bombings. Police and soldiers have been permitted to vote one week in advance - to allow them to focus solely on security when the polls open.
South Sudan clashes: Army 'attacked Lorema hospital'
Five health workers have been killed when South Sudan soldiers attacked a hospital in revenge for the deaths of eight members of the security forces, the local MP has told the BBC.
David Mayo said the fighting was still going on and urged the army to be withdrawn.
Local community leaders confirm that the hospital in the village of Lorema, Eastern Equatoria state, was attacked.
But the state governor denied the reports.
Louis Obong told the BBC that no hospital had been attacked and the security situation was "normal".
An army spokesman said he was investigating the reports and any soldier who had committed abuses would face justice.
Will Paraguay's presidential election be a 'return to the past'?
Leading candidate Cartes is a member of the conservative Colorado Party, which ruled Paraguay for 61 years, until 2008. Last year the left-leaning president Lugo was impeached.
Mr. Cartes is a tobacco magnate who says he will modernize the Southern Cone nation. He is standing for the Colorado Party, which held a grip on power for 61 years before former President Fernando Lugo won elections in 2008. And with Mr. Lugo controversially impeached last year – in what he called a parliamentary coup – a shift back to right-wing policies is expected here.
Cartes' closest contender is Efraín Alegre of the ruling Liberal Party. He is promising a "happy" Paraguay – a play on his surname – by tackling poverty. But, like Cartes, he is a conservative who observers say will favor business.
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