Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as US attorney general and the epicentre of several political storms during the Clinton administration, has died aged 78.

Officials investigating the Boston Marathon bombing said no additional explosive devices have been discovered other than the two that detonated near the race’s finish line, a development that could complicate the case.

SUSPECTED rebels planned to assassinate Colombian President Alvaro Uribe with a huge bomb this weekend. But, when police discovered the device yesterday, the suspected rebels detonated it, killing 15 people and wounding dozens, authorities said.

THE president of a counter-terrorism consulting firm has been charged with possessing 2,352 unregistered small military missiles.