An angry uncle of the two Boston bombing suspects pleaded Friday with one nephew still on the run to "turn yourself in and ask forgiveness" from victims of the worst US terror attack since 9/11. In an impassioned 10-minute interview with reporters outside his Maryland home, Ruslan Tsarni said his nephews "put a shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity" and expressed a desire to apologize personally to the victims.

Cancer sufferer Dietmar Erlacher's lonely anti-smoking campaign in Austria, one of Europe's last bastions of the habit, has won him insults, enemies and even several assaults. But despite this, and even though his band of marshalls has shrunk, the "Smoking Sheriff", as the press calls the retiree, is not about to hang up his badge. "Addicts are not happy when their drugs are taken away from them," the 63-year-old, who has never smoked, told AFP. "I am not expecting anyone to thank me, not smokers and not the media."

Beijing, Apr 17 (EFE).- A young mother died after setting herself on fire to protest Chinese rule over her homeland, prompting thousands of people to gather near her home and the monastery where the self-immolation occurred. Chugtso, 20, set herself ablaze Tuesday near Dzamthang county's Jonang monastery, in Sichuan province, bringing to 116 the number of people who have killed themselves in this fashion since 2009, Radio Free Asia said.

LONDON (Reuters) - About two dozen opponents of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher turned their backs on her funeral procession and some others booed as her coffin passed through central London on a gun carriage on Wednesday. One man held up a placard "Boo!" and some shouted "scum" while others clapped, threw flowers along the route and cheered for Britain's longest serving prime minister of the 20th Century, Reuters reporters said. Thousands of supporters lined the route from Westminster to St Paul's Cathedral.