A Jewish Israeli man was shot and killed in a scuffle with Israeli soldiers who suspected he was a Palestinian attacker, police said, in a reflection of the nervous mood that has gripped Israelis amid a spate of near-daily stabbings.

Potential jurors stared intently at Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as jury selection in his federal death penalty trial began under tight security.

IN HIS 1979 novel The Island of Crimea, Vasily Aksyonov imagined the region’s flourishing independence from the Soviet Union.

Ever since the Winter Olympics were awarded to Russia, fears were raised about potential terrorist attacks, which have plagued the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union, writes Dmitri Trenin.

Yards from its improbable palm-fringed seafront and attended by a president whose seven-year, £31bn dream was starting to unfold before his steely eyes, Sochi welcomed the Winter Olympics with an opening ceremony of fittingly exorbitant scale in the Fisht Stadium last night.

A passenger on board an Istanbul-bound flight claimed there was a bomb on board and tried to hijack the plane to Sochi, Russia, where the Winter Olympics are kicking off, an official says.

Police detained dozens of people yesterday in sweeps through the Russian city of Volgograd after two deadly attacks in less than 24 hours raised security fears ahead of the Winter Olympics.

A suicide bomber struck a busy railway station in southern Russia yesterday, killing herself and at least 15 others and wounding scores more, officials said, in a stark reminder of the threat Russia is facing as it prepares to host February’s Olympics in Sochi.

Fifteen people died and scores were wounded when a female suicide bomber struck at a railway station in southern Russia.

A female suicide bomber killed at least 14 people and wounded scores more at a railway station in southern Russia.

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Tottenham’s biggest ever spending spree looks set to continue with the purchase of Anzhi Makhachkala forward Willian.

Guus Hiddink has resigned as manager of Anzhi Makhachkala with former Manchester United coach Rene Meulensteen named as his replacement.

Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al-Qaida magazine, legal documents revealed.

A federal grand jury has returned a 30-count indictment against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

The Boston Marathon bombings could have been prevented if US officials had followed through on Russian intelligence, a senior Moscow official has said.

A female suicide bomber has injured at least 11 police officers and civilians in the southern Russian region of Dagestan, police said.

A Chechen immigrant shot dead in Florida after a confrontation with an FBI agent had ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, and was being questioned at the time of the shooting.

Boston’s mayor does not want marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev buried in the city, an aide said.

The uncle of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has arrived in Massachusetts to arrange for his burial.

The mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects insists that her sons are innocent and that she is not a terrorist.

US intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials said.

The two men accused of carrying out last week’s bombing of the Boston Marathon planned a second bomb attack on New York’s Times Square, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday.

The mother of the two Boston bombing suspects says she now regrets moving her family to the US and believes they would have been better off in a village in Dagestan.

The US government added the name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect to a terrorist database 18 months before the deadly explosions, officials say.

The CIA has confirmed it wanted one of the Boston bombing suspects placed on a terrorist database 18 months ago.

New details have emerged about how the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects may have been swayed by a radical, anti-American strain of Islam.

The parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev have insisted that he went to Dagestan and Chechnya last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do with militants operating in the volatile part of Russia.

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.

The enhanced police presence for tomorrow’s London Marathon will remain in place despite the death and capture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Scotland Yard said today.

The 19-year-old college student wanted over the Boston Marathon bombings is seriously ill in hospital and unable to be questioned after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralysed and his older brother and accomplice dead.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been captured alive and is in police custody, it has been confirmed.

In May of 2011, Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, then a senior at a top high school, was awarded a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to pursue higher education.

The father of the Boston bombing suspects, Anzor Tsarnaev, claims his sons were set up.

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.

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A 56-year-old Russian woman has told how she survived an attack by a wolf outside her sister’s home in the province of Dagestan.

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Four men have been shot dead after opening fire on police officers in the volatile southern Russian province of Dagestan.

Azerbaijan foiled a bid to stage “terrorist” attacks while it was hosting the Eurovision Song Contest last weekend and arrested dozens of suspected plotters, the security ministry said.

At least 13 people have been killed and scores more injured in two powerful explosions in Russia’s restive North Caucasus.

Authorities are scrambling to save hundreds of starving and endangered Dalmatian pelicans after the Caspian Sea froze for the first time in years.

Guus Hiddink has revealed he is still in touch with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich but the Dutchman has no plans to make a swift return to football after leaving his post as Turkey coach.