Condemned to die for his part in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is likely to await his fate for years, if not decades, locked up in grim prisons under extreme conditions while his lawyers appeal his sentence.

Two major roads in central Los Angeles have been closed amid a massive fire nearby.

A man involved in a custody dispute who was supposed to turn his three-year-old son over to the boy’s mother instead threw the child off the roof of a 52-storey Manhattan apartment building before jumping to his death, police said.

Tea towels a class act at exhibition

A jury has found a trucking company and one of its drivers should pay $150 million (€109m) in damages to a 13-year-old girl who watched her family burn to death in a fiery crash on a Southern California freeway nearly four years ago.

Divers have plucked two more bodies from a sunken passenger ferry and scrambled to plug an oil leak in the wreckage after a collision with a cargo ship.

A “psychotic” former financier blew millions of dollars on presents for strangers, including luxury cars and cash gifts, while Bank of America failed to raise concerns, a lawsuit in New York claims.

American boxer Michael Costantino has just won his first professional fight despite an incredible handicap: he only has one hand.

Thirteen 13 players have reported for the first day of pre-season training at Rangers’ Murray Park training ground, the club’s media team have confirmed.

Rangers manager Ally McCoist has no fresh injury concerns ahead of their Clydesdale Bank Premier League game against Hibernian.

Rangers 2 Kilmarnock 0

Nikica Jelavic has been passed fit to start Rangers‘ Clydesdale Bank Premier League game against Dunfermline.

THE nights are drawing in on us, you’ll notice, ahead of another winter, like the cinema lights dimming before a movie.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER has shrugged off renewed calls for a superfight with Manny Pacquiao, insisting his Filipino rival “has to get his business in order” before the two can meet.

Rangers are boosted by the return of Nikica Jelavic ahead of Sunday’s Old Firm derby

Nikica Jelavic has been ruled out of Rangers‘ Clydesdale Bank Premier League game at Dundee United with a knee injury picked up while away with the Croatian national team.

Rangers 1 Maribor 1 (Maribor win 3-2 on agg)

Rangers are boosted by the return of Dorin Goian for their Clydesdale Bank Premier League game against Inverness.

Malmo 1 Rangers 1 (Malmo win 2-1 on aggregate)

FREDDIE ROACH predicts Amir Khan will become boxing’s next superstar by emulating the popularity of Manny Pacquiao.

Rangers 1 Hearts 1

Rangers will be without suspended skipper David Weir for their Clydesdale Bank Premier League opener against Hearts.

Rangers have confirmed the signing of Spanish midfielder Juan Manuel Ortiz from Almeria for an undisclosed fee.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER Jr. yesterday re-iterated his appeal to Manny Pacquiao to adhere to drug testing rules ahead of any possible showdown between the two.

Floyd Mayweather has announced he will end his latest spell in retirement by challenging Victor Ortiz for the WBC welterweight title on September 17.

The drug company GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $750m (€542m) to settle allegations that it knowingly manufactured and sold adulterated drugs, federal prosecutors in the US said yesterday.

Irish light welterweight Jamie Kavanagh marked his professional debut with a TKO win over American William Ware at Madison Square Garden last night.

BASEBALL stars David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, who powered the Boston Red Sox to World Series titles in 2004 and 2007, tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, it was reported yesterday.

Terrified patients and staff fled as a man went on a shooting rampage at a hospital, killing two fellow employees, then himself.

THE board of Readymix said yesterday that Ignacio Ortiz has been appointed non-executive director and will join the Readymix board with immediate effect.

A prisoner who was having marital problems killed his wife during a conjugal visit in a Costa Rican jail, officials said.

A man was accused of wounding six members of a neighbouring family after a long-running feud that victims said peaked when his daughter began dating a boy from their family.

The United States was on alert today after two trucks laden with explosive propane gas were stolen.

Spain's Crown Prince Felipe married former TV anchorwoman Letizia Ortiz before a sea of dignitaries today, putting a commoner in line to be queen for the first time in Spanish history.

Spain was today putting the final touches to preparations for tomorrow’s royal wedding between Crown Prince Felipe and former TV anchorwoman Letizia Ortiz.

Tourists gawked, VIPs arrived and the wedding party rehearsed Thursday as Spain prepared for this weekend’s nuptials between Crown Prince Felipe and former TV anchorwoman Letizia Ortiz.

GOALKEEPER Danny Ortiz died on Sunday after colliding with an opposing player during a Guatemalan league soccer game.

Spanish Crown Prince Felipe formally proposed to his TV-anchorwoman girlfriend today as a thoroughly modern couple enacted a centuries-old tradition in Madrid.