BRITAIN said yesterday it was reviewing airport security and passenger screening procedures after a Nigerian who had studied in Britain was charged over last week’s failed plot to bomb a US passenger jet.

THE Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a US airliner cut off contact with his relatives and vanished from their lives until they awoke to news of the attempted Christmas Day attack, his family said yesterday.

The young Nigerian man who allegedly tried to bring down a trans-Atlantic flight broke off contact from his worried parents only a few months before the attack, they said today in a statement.

Police radio transcripts from the night of a deadly tiger attack revealed a chaotic scene at the San Francisco Zoo as zookeepers struggled to sedate the animal and medics refused to enter until they knew they would be safe.

Iraqi border guards have captured a Saudi who admitted he was involved in last month’s suicide attack on the Abqaiq oil facility in eastern Saudi Arabia, an Iraqi military spokesman said yesterday.

ONE of two suicide bombers who was killed in the second attempt to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in 11 days has been identified and several suspects detained, the interior minister said yesterday.