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How to spend 48 hours in this Massachusetts gem.

Police determined Everleigh was likely thrown away with soiled linens from the morgue.

New York Times: Terrorists boarded planes in Boston. An airport official was singled out.

Buildings and landmarks vandalised as National Guard suppresses riot in Minnesota.

Kurt Brunton will be posting regular video diaries to the Herald to share his journey.

Our sixty-second guide to walking Boston Freedom Trail, along Massachusetts' redbrick line

Murder of two doctors inside a luxury pad in Boston sparks rumours about killer's motive.

Killer left cut-up photos of the couple, and a message of retribution.

NZ's capital ranked the best place to live in the world in a new global study.

After three months, the washed up toddler found dead on a Boston Harbor beach and known simply as Baby Doe has been identified as Bella Bond.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev now faces execution for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings, but what implications does this sentence have?

Jurors were shown video of the moment a pressure cooker bomb ripped through the crowds at the marathon finish line.

'God has a plan for each person. Mine was to hide in this boat and shed some light on our actions.'

A woman who rushed to her husband's help in the aftermath of the Boston marathon blasts had no idea that the homemade bombs had set her back on fire.

The father of an eight-year-old boy killed in the Boston bombing tells how he had to leave his dying son's side to tend to his grievously injured daughter.

A lawyer for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a jury that her client and his brother carried out the deadly attack almost two years ago.

The jury in the trial of one of the Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev heard gruesome details of the injuries sustained by the victims on day one.

Robots can leave all future high-tech workers and, potentially, all future low-tech workers worse off.

For the first time since the US housing crash, new condos are sprouting in Boston, Seattle and LA as developers bet on the return of the riskiest type of residential real estate.

Nearly 36,000 runners set out from the Boston Marathon starting line with security tight along the 42km course yesterday.

One of the most graphic images to emerge from the Boston Marathon bombings was of a young man who appeared to have lost both his legs.

The Boston bombings have reaffirmed Australia's commitment to its burgeoning counter-intelligence agency, which is preparing to move.

British police are reviewing security plans for Sunday's London Marathon, the next major international marathon, because of the Boston bombings.

"You're meant to do three things while at Harvard," expat and ivy-league graduate Lara Markstein tells me. "One is to pee on John Harvard's foot."