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A 25-year-old has been sentenced to a year in prison for the part he played in hacking the website of Sony Pictures International in July 2011.

US police search for suspect in deadly Marathon bombing

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson cools transfer talk linking Wayne Rooney with a move to Paris St-Germain.

Bookmaker William Hill says online betting helped to boost first quarter operating profits, which rose by 8%.

A newborn lamb which was saved from drowning after being rescued from a river is at the centre of a legal wrangle.

A 50-year-old coach driver dies after being run over by his own vehicle in a shop car park near Plymouth.

The US House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act.

There are "staggering inequalities" in deaths from heart disease in different parts of the UK, says a heart charity.

Emergency services search for survivors after a deadly blast at a fertiliser plant in the US state of Texas, with firefighters among the missing.

Rock bands Rush and Heart and producer Quincy Jones are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Images are released by police of 10 football fans wanted in connection with disorder at Saturday's FA Cup semi-final between Millwall and Wigan.

An international team of disease detectives are in China to investigate an outbreak of a new strain of bird flu, H7N9. The biggest puzzle right now is where these infections are coming from, as testing poultry has turned up very few infected birds.

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The body of a man has been found in woodland above Bridge of Allan, near Stirling, police confirm.

Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura, who holds the distinction of being the world's oldest living person, is celebrating his 116th birthday on Friday.

Thousands of staff plan to walk out of some of the UK's biggest post offices later in a dispute over shop closures, jobs and pay.

A dog owner has spoken of his upset after his pet died after being thrown out of his stolen van by thieves.

The physical nature of the Premier League is what makes it so good, says Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.

One positive thing about tax season: it forces you to look at all the nooks and crannies of your financial life. It's likely you've stumbled on some cracks that need filling or a missed opportunity you can now make good on. To help you sort out your portfolios, Dr. Richard Peterson,  a psychiatrist and investment advisor with the firm MarketPsych, offers some tips.

"The funny thing about tax season is it gives us the chance to go over the past year and see where the leakage was in our portfolio, in our finances and see where things are going well, where they are not going well," says Peterson.

With our savings, Peterson says ideally we should save a percentage of our income to put away in our emergency fund.  The reality is, most people are using savings to pay off credit card debt.

"There's the reality of should you maximize your 401(k) and at the same time be paying off your credit cards -- and of course not. We should pay off that credit card," says Peterson. "It's got to start little step by little step. If you're running behind on saving money, the only way to catch up is to take one controllable, small action. Increase your saving by 1 percent this month, something along those lines."

Peterson says when doing taxes and focusing on details, it's stressful for most people. But, that might be a good thing.

"The funny thing about stress is it makes us detail oriented," says Peterson. "Negativaty actually makes our minds clearer about exactly what's happening. It makes us easier to focus on the details. So in terms of tax season being a good time to lay out long-term plans, it generally is because we're more realistic. We have to deal with the real numbers and we're able to focus on those details like no other time."

Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left one of them dead and another still at large on Friday morning, according to the Associated Press.

Authorities have described the remaining suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a dangerous terrorist and have urged residents of several Boston-area cities and towns to stay in their homes. All modes of Boston-area transit have been suspended. Businesses are being asked to remain closed as the search continues. The AP is reporting that an empty SUV linked to the suspect has now  been found in Boston.

 

 

Katie Zezima, a correspondent with the Associated Press covering the events from Watertown, says clashes between the suspects and the police took place in a very residential area of Watertown.

"There were people in the street just because they were woken up by it at two or three in the morning. They were nervous, there were sounds of gunshots that were going off, there were dozens and dozens of police cars, SWAT team vehicles," says Zezima.

This morning, Boston police took to Twitter to urge people not to use social media to reveal where police are conducting searches.

 

"If the suspects themselves were on a smartphone or some kind of mobile device and were monitoring social media, they could get information that would put those officers at risk," says William Ward, professor of social media at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Ward adds that the directive may also help to keep local area residents safe and accurately informed.

"It's kind of a nervous, scary feeling," says Arthur Paloukos, who owns Linda's Donuts in Belmont, Massachusetts. "We locked the back door, it is nerve-wracking, especially when the SWAT teams came walking by with the dogs, and yelled at us to be inside and don't open the door."

 

This morning's events began only a few hours after the FBI released photos and videos of the two young men, who were seen carrying backpacks as they mingled among marathon spectators. The bombings on Monday killed three people and wounded more than 180 others, and authorities revealed the images to enlist the public's help finding the suspects.

This story has been updated to include the name of the suspect and the directive from the Boston Police Department. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Felipe Massa leads Fernando Alonso in a Ferrari one-two in first practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix.