The Trump administration has proposed spending $18bn over 10 years to significantly extend the border wall with Mexico, providing one of its most detailed blueprints of how the president hopes to carry out a signature campaign pledge.

A planeload of passengers who landed in Rhode Island on a flight from Scotland were stuck on the jet for more than an hour because there were no customs officials to greet them.

A watered down version of Donald Trump's travel ban came into effect at 1am.

Twitter has defied a US government request for records that could identify users behind an account opposed to President Donald Trump, and is challenging that order in court.

The US wants to build a 30-foot border wall that looks appealing from the north side and is difficult to climb or cut through, according to contract notices posted to a government website.

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BRITAIN: A quirky London walking tour takes visitors around the capital’s most interesting toilets.

Justin Bieber's private jet was so thick with marijuana smoke, the pilots had to wear oxygen masks.

US border agents have found marijuana on a bus with singer Justin Bieber’s tour as it crossed into Detroit from Windsor, Canada.

One of three college students arrested in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the US from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa.

SHANNON Airport could become a hub for cargo between the US and Europe, Transport Minister Noel Dempsey believes.

THE Shannon Airport Authority (SAA) has failed to attract a scheduled service based on its €21 million US-Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the 12 months since the service was introduced.

THE US government has ordered airlines to check updated no-fly lists within two hours of being notified of changes in the wake of the failed Times Square bomb attack.

The US government has ordered airlines to check updated no-fly lists within two hours of being notified of changes in the wake of the failed Times Square bomb attack.

The no-fly list failed to keep the Times Square suspect off the plane, it has emerged.

Science fiction writer Peter Watts was pepper-sprayed and arrested after police said he became aggressive during an inspection on the US border, it emerged today.

FROM July 1, people travelling to the US under the Visa Waiver Programme (VWP), with passports issued after October 2006, will be subject to an electronic passport requirement.

A leader of the incoming Democratic Congress, business travellers and privacy advocates have expressed outrage over computerised “terror score” assessments.

US President George Bush today signed a bill authorising 700 miles of new fencing along the US-Mexico border, hoping to give Republican candidates a pre-election platform for asserting they are tough on illegal immigration.

A woman faces charges after a US baggage search found a human skull with teeth, hair and skin in her luggage at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

POP star Cat Stevens was escorted off a transatlantic flight and denied entry to the United States because of fears he has links to terrorists, security officials said yesterday.

Singer Cat Stevens and his daughter were escorted off a diverted transatlantic flight by FBI agents, it emerged today.