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Thinking of going to the cinema this week? Declan Burke reviews Patriots Day, A Cure for Wellness and George Best: All By Himself.

In the wake of the horrific attack at the Brussels airport and a metro station, there were immediate calls for more information sharing and greater co-ordination among the world’s intelligence agencies to detect terrorist plots before they can be executed, writes David Wise

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

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A man who lent the convicted Boston Marathon bomber the gun used to kill a police officer three days after the deadly 2013 attack was set to be released from jail after a judge sentenced him to time served for drug and firearms charges.

A Cork man, whose sister and niece were killed in the 9/11 attacks, has said he is “bitterly frustrated” that five suspects, who were captured a decade ago, have still not been tried.

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers have said that he deserves a new trial in a different location where jurors will be impartial.

If distance running is an addictive drug, then Dick Hoyt and his son Rick are the ultimate pushers.

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev yesterday apologised for the deadly 2013 attack at a hearing.

A US jury yesterday sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for helping to carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264 at the world-renowned race. It took 15 hours to reach a decision.

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case to save him from the death penalty, calling a famous death penalty opponent as their final witness to testify that Tsarnaev told her, “no one deserves to suffer like they did.”

Dublin Marathon Race Director Jim Aughney admitted he was “disappointed” that Martin Fagan pulled out at the last minute for the launch of the race yesterday.

Some of the quirky stories from around the world.

Sapphyre Johnson is three years old and, last Monday, she got her first pet - a German Shepherd pup.

ENGLAND: A number of bingo hall toilets in the UK have tested positive for cocaine, according to a newspaper investigation, amid concerns that increasing numbers of older people are turning to the drug.

Alice Barker is 102 years old.

An eight-year-old girl in Canada has been told to stop reading books on the school bus because it’s a safety risk.

A video has been posted on YouTube of a teenage girl, who had inexplicably been paralysed from the waist down for 11 days, astounding a nurse by getting up out of her wheelchair.

As jurors looked at a photograph of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev giving the finger to a security camera in his jail cell, a federal prosecutor described it as a defiant act by an unrepentant man who didn’t care that he had killed four people, including an 8-year-old boy and a police officer.

Jurors in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have begun deliberations, a day after both prosecutors and his lawyers told them Tsarnaev must be held accountable for participating in the terror attack.

As he planted a backpack containing a bomb just feet from a group of children, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made a cold-hearted decision aimed at spreading terror, a federal prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments at Tsarnaev’s death penalty trial.

USA: Officials said a 62-year-old man holding a fish he caught on a boat in a San Diego bay was pulled overboard by a sea lion.

Comedian Bill Maher has received a pretty strong backlash from One Direction fans after comparing Zayn Malik to one of the terrorists involved with the Boston marathon bombing.

Two decades have passed since Timothy McVeigh set off a truck bomb outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, but the memory remains vivid for Tonya McCabe, who sat on the jury that sentenced him to die.

Prosecutors have rested their case against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with gruesome autopsy photos of the people who died in the 2013 terror attack.

A woman giving evidence from a wheelchair in the Boston Marathon bombing trial has recalled shielding her husband from the sight of his mangled leg.

Moments after being blasted into the air “like a rocket” in the Boston Marathon bombing, nurse Jessica Kensky saw that her husband’s leg had been blown off and leaped into action, struggling to put a tourniquet on him, she testified.

A man who became one of the lasting images of the Boston Marathon bombing when he was wheeled away, ashen-faced, his legs severely injured, has told a court that he locked eyes with the bomber’s older brother before the explosives went off.

A Florida Islamic group has filed a formal notice with the FBI that it plans to sue it for $30m (€26m) in the death of Ibragim Todashev, a friend of a Boston Marathon bomb suspect.

From the moment US prosecutors stand up on Wednesday and begin their case against accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, their minds and those of their defence counterparts will be focused on just one thing: The death penalty.

The trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev can stay in Massachusetts, a US appeal court has ruled.

’Running police’ made sure the Tokyo Marathon went off without a hitch yesterday.

’Running police’ made sure the Tokyo Marathon went off without a hitch.

Storm Juno failed to live up to

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John Lordan was born in Bandon, Cork, in 1876. Historian and media student, Kevin O’Brien, reveals a compelling story of how, after migration to America, he made a name for himself as a long distance runner, winning the 1903 Boston Marathon and competing in the strangest Olympic race ever held at the 1904 St Louis games.

Potential jurors stared intently at Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev yesterday as jury selection in his federal death penalty trial began under tight security.

Potential jurors stared intently at Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as jury selection in his federal death penalty trial began under tight security.

A certain sportswear company once had a motivational slogan which simply said — ‘You Either Ran Today or You Didn’t’.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev returned to court for the first time since he was arraigned in July 2013.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev returned to court today for the first time since he was arraigned in July 2013.

An American photographer based in Vermont, USA has published a book featuring images of the Irish landscape to raise funds for survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing.