Airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images are to be scrapped, America’s transport authority says.

Republicans pressed the Obama administration over the deadly attack on US diplomats in Libya, hoping to weaken the president three days before a final debate with rival Mitt Romney that will focus on foreign policy.

An air strike killed al Qaida’s second in command in Yemen along with six others travelling with him in a car, US and Yemeni officials said.

The father of a 27-year-old accused of murdering a man in Co Wicklow three years ago has said his son told him “he was going to be framed for something he hadn’t done”.

An undercover agent who foiled an al Qaida plot to blow up a airliner with an underwear bomb is a British national, it was reported tonight.

Details have emerged of how the CIA fooled al Qaida over the terror network’s plot to bring down a plane with a nearly-undetectable bomb.

The CIA has thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

A Nigerian who tried to blow up an international flight near Detroit on behalf of al Qaida started a life sentence without parole today.

Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife, Brooke Mueller, has been arrested on suspicion of third-degree assault and cocaine possession with intent to distribute, according to police in the US.

A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up an American plane on Christmas Day 2009 has told a judge he wants to plead guilty.

Yemen’s embattled president vowed he would not step down or allow his impoverished nation to become a “failed state” even as urban combat between government troops and armed tribesmen engulfed parts of the capital.

Yemen’s embattled president vowed today he would not step down or allow his impoverished nation to become a “failed state” even as urban combat between government troops and armed tribesmen engulfed parts of the capital.

A man has lost his High Court challenge over a warrant used to search his home during a garda investigation into an alleged conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist who drew a picture of the prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.

Osama bin Laden kept pressing followers to find new ways to hit the US and his terror organisation was becoming battered and fragmented, according to his private diary and other documents recovered in the raid on his Pakistan hideout.

DEEP in hiding, Osama bin Laden kept pressing followers to find ways to hit the US, officials said, citing his private journal and other documents recovered in last week’s raid.

A devout Muslim awaiting trial on charges of making a menacing phone call has claimed before the High Court that conditions in Cork Prison are in breach of his rights to practise his religion.

Charlie Sheen wants his two ex-wives to move in next door to him.

A judge has granted Charlie Sheen and his wife Brooke a divorce, but it will be a few months before the pair are legally single.

Charlie Sheen was rushed to hospital this morning.

Actor Charlie Sheen was sentenced today after pleading guilty to attacking his wife in a Christmas Day argument in exchange for the withdrawal of more serious charges.