All 54 people on board a Trigana Air aircraft were killed in a crash two days ago, in Indonesia’s Papua province, officials said.

Saddam Hussein was expected to show up when his Baghdad trial reconvenes today, two weeks after he boycotted the last session and vowed not to appear before an “unjust” court.

Iraqi troops will take over security at Baghdad Airport, replacing the British company which stopped working today in a pay dispute with the government, a top Iraqi official said.

Israel is to ban foreign airliners without bulletproof cockpit doors from flying over the country or landing at its airports from October. 31, a spokesman for the country's Ministry of Transportation said.