A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities while being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing case yesterday after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said.

The man accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old British tourist in a hotel elevator in the US this week was a former middle-school teacher who recently lost his certificate for allegedly fondling a girl at another hotel.

A British tourist paid a McDonald’s worker in the US an undisclosed reward after he handed in her wallet, stuffed with $8,700 (€5,988), it emerged today.