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 suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing claims that his son who is still on the loose is a smart and accomplished young man.

John Terry will make his return from his racism ban in Chelsea’s Premier League clash with Liverpool today.

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

Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala have completed the signing of striker Samuel Eto’o from Inter Milan.

Two people were killed and 83 injured when a passenger jet with 155 people on board skidded off the runway during an emergency landing at a Moscow airport today, Russian officials said.

Gun battles across the capital of Russia's violent southern province of Dagestan have killed at least six policemen and four suspected militants, police said.

At least five people were killed and 20 injured today when a car exploded near the central market of a major city in Russia’s restive North Caucasus region, officials said.

British, French and US troops strode across Red Square for the first time today in a Victory Day parade marked both by the usual impressive display of Russia’s military might and by an unusual emphasis on international co-operation.

A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed car at a police station in Russia’s troubled North Caucasus today, killing at least six officers and wounding 16, police said.

A journalist with state-run Russian television has been found dead in a Moscow apartment with a belt around his neck and numerous stab wounds.

A military truck exploded in the capital of the southern Russian region of Dagestan today, killing at least one servicemen, Russian news agencies reported.

A bomb exploded beneath a train in Russia’s violence-plagued Dagestan region today, killing one person and injuring four others, police said.

A radio-controlled bomb tore into a truck carrying Russian soldiers in the capital of the restive Dagestan region today, killing at least 11 troops and wounding over 20 other people, including civilians, officials said.

A minibus carrying members of a wedding party collided with a car on a road in Russia’s Dagestan region today, killing at least nine people and injuring 11 others, police said.

An explosion ripped through the courtyard of an apartment building in southern Russia’s Dagestan region today, killing two people including a minister in the regional government, police said.

A police chief in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan escaped a roadside assassination attempt today, the regional branch of the interior ministry said.

Investigators think an explosion that ripped through a gas pipeline in the southern Russian region of Dagestan was caused by sabotage and have opened a criminal case on charges of terrorism, the regional Interior Ministry said today.

Two explosions went off outside an Interior Ministry troops’ base in a Russian republic bordering warring Chechnya today, wounding eight people, the Interior Ministry reported.

Attackers armed with grenade- and rocket-launchers seized the Interior Ministry headquarters in Ingushetia, a Russian region bordering warring Chechnya, a ministry official said today.

A Dutch aid worker who was kidnapped in Russia 20 months ago, was freed today.

A Dutch aid worker who was kidnapped in Russia 20 months ago was freed today.

A FIRE in a boarding school for the deaf in southern Russia killed 28 children and seriously injured 17 others yesterday, as rescuers raced from bed to bed to awaken students who could not hear alarms.

Twenty-eight children were killed today in southern Russia when a fire roared through a boarding school for the deaf.

Rangers’ hopes of playing in this season’s UEFA Cup look to be all but over after a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reject their appeal against travelling to Dagestan.

Two people have been badly wounded in a bomb blast in Dagestan.

A bomb explosion in the region of Makhachkala where Rangers are due to play a UEFA Cup tie next week has prompted the British Foreign Office to increase pressure on Europe’s soccer chiefs to sanction a switch of venue.