Bombers: The parents of the Boston bombing suspects have given up a plan to come to the US to recover the body of their dead son, Reuters reports. The news service says they spoke to the parents in a remote village in the North Caucasus. The father, Anzor Tsarnaev, also is quoted saying he doesn’t think he will be allowed to see his surviving son, Dzhohkar, held in a prison hospital. “I feel hopeless. We are simple people. We are trying to understand. We are attacked from all sides.”

Investigative reporters have been hunting a man known as “Misha”, who was suspected of radicalizing Tamerlan Tsarnaev, but he was found first in Rhode Island by the hard hitting New York Review of Books. The man is Mikhail Allakhverdov, 39, of Armenian-Ukrainian descent, who knew the older Tsarnaev in Boston several years ago. He told the publication he’s already been interviewed and cleared by the FBI and that he was never Tamerlan’s teacher. “I wasn’t his teacher. If I had been his teacher, I would have made sure he never did anything like this.”

Private Space: After successful glide-testing, Virgin Galactic this morning conducted its first in flight rocket burn for SpaceShip Two, designed to carry passengers into space. The company called it a major milestone in human space flight.

World: The owner of the collapsed factory building in Bangladesh was captured by a commando force as he tried to escape to India. At least 380 people are dead with more still missing. Fire broke out in the wreckage yesterday, halting rescue and recovery. So far eight people including two government engineers have been arrested.

• The Greek parliament passed a bill to cut 15,000 government jobs by the end of 2014 in exchange for an $11.4 billion loan from the Eurozone. That ends a constitutional guarantee giving civil servants a job for life and will add to the country’s 27% unemployment rate.

The Obit Page: Feminist writer-editor Mary Thom, 68, an early staffer who rose to be editor of “Ms.” magazine, died Saturday in Yonkers, NY in a motorcycle crash. She drove only a motorcycle for 40 years.

At the Box: Action flick “Pain & Gain” with Mark Wahlberg topped the weekend with a modest $20 million. A sci-fi called “Oblivion” based on a graphic novel and starring Tom Cruise was an uninspired second at $17.4 million and the Jackie Robinson biopic “42” slid to third at $10.7 million.

Unkindest Cut: The NY Jets have cut quarterback Tim Tebow, who arrived in the city with great fanfare just a year ago. Tebow, famous for his single-knee prayer stance, “Tebowing”, took only 77 snaps with the Jets.

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