Americans marked the 12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Wednesday, highlighted by somber reading of names of the almost 3000 lives lost when two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan in 2001.
26 Palestinian prisoners were released on Tuesday night as part of an Israeli gesture to the Palestinian Authority following the resumpton of peace talks.
A grand jury indicted Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhaykov, the two friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect DzhokharTsarnaev on obstruction of justice charges for helping to hide evidence after the April 15 terror attack that killed three people and injured 264 people.
The official death toll rose to 35 after knife attacks on Chinese authorities in a far-western region which has seen frequent clashes between China's Muslim minority Uyghurs and the ethnic Han majority.
Initial reports said that 27 people were killed on Wednesday in the Xinjang region, with state-run media saying that the assailants were wielding knives, launching an early-morning attack targeting police stations, a government building and a construction site, seen as symbols of Han authority and influx in the region.
The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces a 30-count indictment by a federal grand jury charging him with using weapons of mass destruction and killing 4 people. The indictment alleged that Tsarnaev, inspired by Al-Qaeda publication (specifically Inspire) had allegedly left a confession in the boat where he was captured in a Watertown Massachusetts backyard writing, "I don't like killing innocent people," but had been justified because of U.S. government actions abroad.
Traces of DNA on an orange juice bottle and a surveillance of a man praying in a mall led to the arrest on Wednesday of a young suspect accused of stabbing a French soldier who was patrolling a crowded area outside Paris.
Female DNA has been found on at least on at least one of the bombs used in the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks, but have yet to determine whose it is or whether it indicates if a woman helped the Tsarnaevs execute their deadly plot on April 15, USA Today reported.
The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his constitutional rights sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating, according to a U.S. law enforcement source and four officials of both political parties briefed on the interrogation.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, mother of terrorism suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, insists that her eldest son was not completely inspired by a radical Muslim cleric he knew in Boston. Others, including the suspects' uncle disagrees.
The Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's American wife Katherine Russell is "very distraught" but will cooperate with the FBI investigation
The two suspects of the Boston Marathon bombings aunt Maret Tsarnaeva still believes her nephews are innocent. She has claimed she has also received numerous threats since she came forward on Friday.
The suspects were identified to The Associated Press as coming from Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency from separatist wars. A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge.
With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice brother robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a police officer to death, carjacked an SUV and hurled explosives in an extraordinary firefight with law enforcement
The FBI today released photos and video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon terror bombings case, appealing to the public to help law enforcement officials in hopes of apprehending them.
The Boston Marathon bomber used a pair of six-liter pressure cookers packed with metal nails and ball bearings as a means to kill his victims at the finish line during the Boston Marathon
Krystle Campbell, 29 years old, was identified as the second person killed in the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday. Campbell was reportedly near the finish line with her friend Karen Rand, who reportedly was waiting for her boyfriend to finish the race at about 3 p.m. just as the first blast occurred.
Martin Richard, an 8-year-old boy was killed on Monday at the end of the Boston Marathon. The mother and sister were both critically injured in the blast. Martin's mother underwent brain surgery Monday night and his sister, 6, lost a leg in the blast. The status of his father, Williams, has not been released publicly.
Boston Police Commissioner Ed David said that there is not anyone in custody for the dual bombings at the Boston Marathon. Officials made a public plea to turn over any photographic or digital evidence they have from the scene.
