The boxing world continues to rally around Russian heavyweight Magomed Abdusalamov who has been in a medically-induced coma since Saturday’s defeat to Cork based Cuban fighter Mike ‘The Rebel’ Perez.

Cork boxer Mike ‘The Rebel’ Perez’s opponent from Saturday night’s bout at Madison Square Garden in New York has been placed in a coma.

If Tamerlan Tsarnaev was already plotting the Boston Marathon bombings when he stayed in this bustling city at the heart of Islamist insurgency last year, neighbours say he hid it well.

A TENSE six-hour siege came to a peaceful end in Dublin city centre yesterday after a Chechen refugee gave himself up to gardaí.