Houston firm offers space flights for pet remains

Flatley reigned and then it poured — or was it the other way around?

Harvard University yesterday reopened four buildings at the heart of its centuries-old campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that had been evacuated earlier after reports that explosives had been planted on the premises.

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.

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.

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.”

Police are reported to be searching a flat in a Boston suburb as part of the investigation into the explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Three-tonne concrete panels fell from the roof of Boston’s Big Dig cross-city tunnel, killing a woman in a car and shutting down a section of the massive US building project.