Barack Obama will disclose more today about the botched airline terrorist attack - and what else he will do to beef up security.

An American grand jury today indicted a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama was due to receive a preliminary report last night on how a 23-year-old Nigerian with suspected terrorist ties managed to board a plane he is accused of attempting to bomb on Christmas Day, along with recommendations on how to prevent a sequel.

US President Barack Obama will today receive a preliminary report on how a 23-year-old Nigerian with suspected terrorist ties managed to board a plane he is accused of attempting to bomb on Christmas Day, along with recommendations on how to prevent a sequel.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama is demanding answers on why information was never pieced together by the US intelligence community to trigger red flags about an alleged terrorist involved in a Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner.

Security services were warned of a terrorist bomb plot weeks before the failed Christmas Day airliner attack, it was claimed today.

The Dutch government says it will immediately begin using full body scanners on flights to the US to prevent future terrorist attacks such as the Christmas Day attempt by a young Nigerian.

Pictures have been released in America of the burnt underwear worn by the man who allegedly tried to blow up a plane above Detroit on Christmas Day.

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.

The man at the centre of the failed Detroit airliner bomb plot had been banned from entering Britain, it was disclosed today.

Armed officers rushed aboard the same Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas Day, after an emergency call from the crew about another Nigerian on board.

Law enforcement officials in Washington said tonight the alleged Christmas Day terrorist is to be charged in Detroit with trying to blow up a plane.

Some airlines are telling passengers that new security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats beginning an hour before landing.

The US airline crew that overshot their destination by 100 miles had no idea anything was wrong until one of the cabin crew told them, investigation papers released today reveal.

Two US pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles are grounded indefinitely unless the National Transportation Safety Board grants them a reprieve.

Two pilots told investigators they were going over schedules using their laptop computers against company policy while their passenger jet overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles.

Malfunctioning equipment on at least a dozen recent flights by US passenger jets made it impossible for pilots to know how fast they were flying, investigators have discovered.

US safety officials say they are investigating two incidents in which airspeed and altitude indications in the cockpits of Airbus A330 planes may have malfunctioned.

A plane carrying 285 passengers has been forced to make an emergency landing at Shannon Airport.

The grim task of identifying victims of the Air France plane crash will begin today.

AER LINGUS is replacing air speed sensors on some of its jets amid mounting speculation that the wrong flying speed in thunderstorm conditions caused the recent loss of an Air France plane with 228 people on board.

Japanese authorities were scrambling today to track travellers who arrived on the same flight as three people diagnosed with the country's first confirmed cases of swine flu.

Most of the largest US airlines will temporarily reduce services to Mexico, as swine flu fears keep many US travellers from venturing south of the border.

At least 47 airline passengers were injured when their plane hit severe turbulence off the coast of Japan today.

A flight attendant angry about his work route started a fire in a toilet, forcing an emergency landing, authorities said today.

A potential tie-up between British Airways and two US rivals could lead to the trio co-ordinating schedules, fares and frequent flyer programmes for transatlantic flights, it was reported today.

Stocks finished a quiet session moderately lower today as investors grappled with concerns about the health of corporate profits after Wachovia posted disappointing quarterly results.

Aerospace firms from both sides of the border aiming to cut deals at the Paris Airshow this week.

A US airliner bound for India was diverted to Amsterdam under escort of two Dutch F-16 jet fighters, after air marshals and the crew grew suspicious of several passengers they saw exchanging mobile phones as the plane was taking off.

A US airline flight to India returned to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport today, escorted by two Dutch F-16 jet fighters, after the crew reported some passengers were behaving suspiciously, authorities said.

Dutch F-16s escorted a Northwest Airlines flight bound for India back to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport today, and authorities detained several passengers for questioning.

Stocks barely moved today as investors wondered whether a welter of weak economic data would end the Federal Reserve’s year-long streak of interest rate rises.

Wall Street rallied today as oil prices tumbled, the service sector reported strong growth and investors embraced large-cap stocks such as Wal-Mart Stores, Coca-Cola and Home Depot.

Wall Street finished a difficult week lower today as investors, restrained by uncertainty about the economic impact of Hurricane Katrina, had little reaction to a sharp decline in oil prices and a drop in unemployment.

Newly optimistic investors sent stocks sharply higher today, propelling the Dow Jones industrials 112 points higher as new economic data showed strength in manufacturing.

A NEW round of freezing rain coated highways and power lines with ice along the east coast of the United States yesterday, leaving at least 44 people dead.

Air France and KLM have quashed hopes of an immediate cooperation deal, citing key issues that have to be resolved before the Dutch carrier can be included in the SkyTeam alliance.

An airliner was diverted to Fort Smith, Arkansas after four passengers behaved strangely on the flight, including at least three who locked themselves in a lavatory, possibly shaving their body hair.

A flight from the Netherlands to the United States has made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport after a fire broke out in the galley area of the plane.

A Washington meeting to discuss the proposed transatlantic link-up of British Airways and American Airlines turned into a grilling of US airline chiefs over security following the September 11 terror attacks.

Two US aircraft impounded over a suspected anthrax alert have been released by the FBI.

A Northwest Airlines pilot erupted in fury after airport security confiscated his fingernail clippers and scissors, it has emerged.

US carrier Northwest Airlines is to cut 10,000 jobs and reduce services by 20% to counter a business slow down in the wake of terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.

Continental Airlines announced Saturday that it is cutting its schedule of flights by 20% and laying off 12,000 employees due to the reluctance of both business and leisure travelers to return to the skies after Tuesday's terrorist attack on the United States.