In a statement, US Attorney General Eric Holder detailed the charge against 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He faces a possible death sentence. Tsarnaev made his initial court appearance in his room in Beth Israel hospital in Boston, where he is in a serious but stable condition.

More than £225 million owed to taxpayers by crime bosses will never be repaid in a devastating blow to efforts to punish “Mr Bigs”.

Romanian travellers have begun sleeping rough outside shops in Park Lane.

The widow of murdered headteacher Philip Lawrence has branded the justice system “perverse” after it was revealed that her husband’s killer is being prepared for release from prison.

Boris bike users could get a free half hour if they return their cycles to empty docking stations. 

Temperatures in the south of England could break the 20C (68F) mark this week, forecasters said.

Boris Johnson will be the star speaker at a mass rally this month against the expansion of Heathrow, as leaders of the campaign promise a “bare-knuckle fight”.

You don’t need to know that Zoom is 12 years old to be impressed by his achievements. And you don’t need to be 12 years old to find his self-published comic The Zoom! hilarious. It may have a circulation of only 250 but in just four years Rockman has turned it into a serious rival to the Beano. Well, almost.