Boston Marathon official race photographer Liz Cardoso was just metres away from one of the two bomb blasts that rocked last April’s race, killing three and injuring more than 200 people.

Ireland and the rest of Europe is facing a rising threat from the return of radicalised fighters from Syria and North Africa, according to a former top Irish garda heading the EU police agency in the US.

A US policeman said he released photographs of accused Boston marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, including one with a red dot of a sniper rifle’s laser sight on his forehead, to counter a “fluffed and buffed” image of him on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in an undisclosed location outside the city of Worcester, police said after a frustrating week-long search for a community willing to take the body.

The uncle of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has arrived in Massachusetts to arrange for his burial.

More than 17,000 runners at today'sBelfast City Marathon stood in silence in memory of the spectators killed in the Boston bombings.

President Barack Obama is defending the FBI’s handling of the Boston Marathon bombing investigation as Republicans prepare for oversight hearings on the attack.

A funeral home director was today trying to find a cemetery that would bury a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was the subject of a massive manhunt and died after a gun battle with police, has been claimed.

Three more suspects have been arrested in the Boston Marathon bombing case, including two college friends of captured gunman Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The Boston Marathon bombing suspects had some training in carrying out their attack, according to the chairman of the US House Homeland Security Committee.

US intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials said.

The cover of the latest edition of Boston magazine pays a nice tribute to those affected by last Monday week’s events at the city’s marathon.

The mother of the two Boston bombing suspects says she now regrets moving her family to the US and believes they would have been better off in a village in Dagestan.

The Boston bombings show that the West was wrong in supporting militants in Chechnya, Russian President Vladimir Putin says.

The CIA has confirmed it wanted one of the Boston bombing suspects placed on a terrorist database 18 months ago.

New details have emerged about how the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects may have been swayed by a radical, anti-American strain of Islam.

Bradley Cooper has paid tribute to the victims of the Boston bombings.

The parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev have insisted that he went to Dagestan and Chechnya last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do with militants operating in the volatile part of Russia.

Boston plans to mark the traumatic week since the marathon bombings with a mournful silence as the city returns to its bustling commute.

Undaunted by the Boston bombings, big crowds lined the route of the London marathon yesterday to cheer on around 36,000 runners, many of whom wore black ribbons to honour the dead and wounded in last week’s tragedy.

A Russian rebel group is denying any link to the deadly Boston marathon bombings.

As the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay in hospital under heavy guard, the American Civil Liberties Union and a federal public defender raised concerns about investigators’ plan to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev without reading him his rights.

Kenya’s Priscah Jeptoo went one better than her London 2012 Olympics silver by winning the Virgin London Marathon today.

The London Marathon runners fell silent on the start line today in memory of those who died in the Boston bomb attacks.

The hunt for the bombers behind the deadly Boston Marathon attacks didn’t take place only on the streets with professional police officers and Swat teams. In an era of digital interactivity, it also unfolded around the country from the desks of ordinary people.

State Police have warned residents that they will do a controlled explosion of items found in Norfolk Street in Cambridge where the Boston bombing suspects lived.

Police in Boston have surrounded a building in the suburb of Watertown as they hunt a teenager they suspect was involved in the bomb attack on the city's marathon.

One of the two suspects in the MIT officer shooting is dead but the other, who is tied to the Boston marathon bombing, remains at large, Boston police said.

Diana Hogan-Murphy, from Montenotte in Cork City, on finishing the Boston Marathon and the terrifying ordeal that followed

While our thoughts are rightly with the victims of the Boston bombings in what Taoiseach Enda Kenny called “this senseless and terrible event”, we might reflect on the contrasting standards applied to equally appalling or worse acts from elsewhere in the world.

The FBI has released photos of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings and is seeking the public's help to identify them.

In what could be a major break in the case of the Boston Marathon, police are hunting a man seen in a department-store surveillance video dropping off a bag at the site of the bombings that killed three people.

If attacks like the one in Boston come in bursts, it is conceivable that insurgents could follow with larger acts reports Leonid Bershidsky

FBI agents zeroed in on how the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out – with kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel - but said they still did not know who did it and why.

London Marathon organisers were grappling with the conundrum of securing the race’s 26.2 mile route after the fatal bomb blasts that devastated the Boston race.

A few things seem pretty certain about the Boston bombings.

US President Barack Obama has said they do not know who carried out the Boston marathon bombings or why.

As the FBI launched a hunt for those responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings, US President Barack Obama said: “We will find out who did this. We’ll find out why they did this. Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice.”

“Several amputations” had to be performed on victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, Massachusetts General Hospital has said.

An Irishman has told how he prayed for three hours as he waited for his wife after two bomb blasts ripped through the Boston Marathon, killing at least three people.

Twenty five Irish organisations are to travel to Boston to take part in an investment summit.

Hurricane Earl caused a one-hour delay in play at the Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston today with Rory McIlroy and Brian Davis one stroke off the lead.

LIMERICK is on track to link up with one of the world’s biggest marathons.