What no one knows, certainly not Jana's kindly carpenter husband Cooper, is that Jana's real name is Cadence Miller and that when she was at university her younger brother, Varney, shot dead their parents, a teacher and a rival student.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

His brother, Tamerlan, was brought to a hospital and pronounced dead around 1:30 a.m.

WSJ: Boston Bombing Suspect Killed in Shootout

Earlier, Israel's Supreme Court had ruled in favour of deporting from the West Bank to the fenced-off Gaza strip two Palestinians accused of having helped their brother, who is believed to have organised suicide bombings and was shot dead at the beginning of August.

ECONOMIST: Fading hopes | The

British hostage Kenny Whiteside was "lined up" and shot dead in the Algerian siege, his brother has said.

BBC: Algeria siege: British hostage 'was executed'

After Kennedy was murdered he joined Kennedy's brother Bobby in his bid in 1968 to become president and was with him when he too was shot dead.

ECONOMIST: George Plimpton

Authorities said the older brother was critically injured in the shootout and taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he was pronounced dead.

WSJ: Boston Bombing Suspect Killed in Shootout