Veteran wheelchair racer Ernst van Dyk has become the first athlete to win 10 titles at the Boston Marathon.
Security has been beefed up at the 2014 Boston Marathon, a year after the bombings that killed three people and injured hundred others.
The White House has filled Michelle Obama’s seating area at the State of the Union address with people who represent issues important to her.
A US grand jury has indicted accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhohkhar Tsarnaev on charges of killing four people and using homemade bombs.
Federal prosecutors have charged badly-wounded Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his hospital bed.
The father of the suspected Boston bombers has insisted in an interview that his sons were innocent and could not have carried out the bombings.
Prosecutors have prepared criminal charges against a student suspected in the Boston bombings as he lay wounded, unable to speak and hospitalised.
The surviving suspect remains in serious condition in hospital, unable to speak due to injuries to his neck and tongue.
Big crowds lined the route of London’s mass road race to cheer on 36 000 runners, may of whom wore black ribbons to honour the dead and wounded.
The search for the remaining 19-year-old man suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon on Monday continues, as cities remain under lockdown.
Two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings did not have any connection with their homeland of Chechnya.
Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Islamic websites and calling for Chechen independence on a Russian social networking site.
Boston police commissioner Ed Davis has warned the city of Boston to "shelter-in-place" as authorities pressed a manhunt for the second suspect.
A suspect in the shooting of an MIT guard is dead, and a manhunt is on for another – both of whom are believed to be involved in the Boston bombings.
Police have descended on a Boston suburb amid reports of gunfire and explosions after a university police officer was shot dead on the MIT campus.
