Airline passengers have come to expect a tiny escape from the confined space of today’s packed planes: the ability to recline their seat a few inches.

A Sony executive’s flight was diverted after hackers attacked the company’s PlayStation Network, then tweeted to suggest there was a bomb on his plane.

Poor weather was the most likely cause of the crash of an Air Algerie flight in the West African state of Mali that killed 118 people on board, French officials said.

After pushing stocks to record levels last week, investors on Wall Street turned cautious yesterday ahead of a batch of corporate earnings reports.

A passenger at Detroit’s airport was found with a concealed knife in his shoe and was arrested, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said.

The father of a teenager who survived a five-hour flight from California to Hawaii tucked in a jet’s wheel well has said his son missed Africa, where he used to live, and was struggling at school.

US airport chiefs have launched a major security probe after a 15-year-old boy climbed into a airliner’s wheel well, then flew for five freezing hours from California to Hawaii.

The US Homeland Security Department is banning all liquids from hand luggage for non-stop flights from the United States to Russia.

Prosecutors filed a murder charge against the suspected gunman in the deadly shooting at Los Angeles International Airport, and he could face the death penalty.

A man pulled a semi-automatic rifle from a bag and shot his way past a checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport yesterday, killing a security officer and wounding two other people in an attack that sent terrified travellers running for cover and disrupted US flights from coast to coast, authorities said.

A federal security agent was shot dead and two other people were injured when a gunman opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon at Los Angeles airport today, police said.

Three disclosures in the past week have shown the United States is losing its way in the struggle against terrorism.

A US Airways flight from Ireland has been forced to land in Philadelphia today because of an unspecified threat.

US airline passengers will be able to carry small knives on planes.

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

A pilot suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend stole an empty passenger jet from a Utah airport, crashed it near a terminal, then killed himself.

A US Airways jet on a flight from Paris to North Carolina has been diverted over security fears after a French passenger handed a note to a flight attendant saying she had a surgically implanted device.

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.

A man has stripped naked at a US airport as a protest against airport security screeners, police said.

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

A Detroit federal judge is refusing to set aside a federal law which demands a mandatory life sentence for a Nigerian who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up an international flight bound for Detroit on Christmas 2009.

AN 84-year-old New York grandmother says she was injured and humiliated during a strip-search at a city airport.

The US government is warning airlines that terrorists are considering having bombs surgically implanted inside themselves.

US government authorities are investigating a pilot who posted videos on YouTube criticising what he said were security lapses at San Francisco International Airport.

The young Yemeni woman arrested on suspicion of mailing powerful bombs to US synagogues was released on bail today as Yemeni officials said authorities believed her identity had been stolen.

US law enforcement officials are today investigating reports of suspicious packages on cargo planes in the eastern US cities of Philadelphia and Newark, New Jersey.

Two men on a flight from Chicago to Amsterdam were reportedly facing a terror charge today after US officials found a mobile phone taped to a medicine bottle, a knife and a box cutter in checked luggage.

A COMPANY has tackled the problem of intrusive airport full-body scanners — with a product that covers your private parts.

A former US Air Force serviceman was being questioned today after sparking a terror alert which caused a flight from Paris to Atlanta to be diverted.

US senators criticised authorities regarding an airport security breach at the weekend as a video of the incident emerged showing a guard standing nearby as a man followed a woman into the terminal.

A grim-faced Barack Obama blamed a deep failure of national intelligence for the botched Christmas Day plane terror attack over Detroit, saying the government had enough information but could not “connect those dots”.

Barack Obama is preparing to question and challenge his team today about the state of national security as America added dozens of people to its lists of suspected terrorists and those barred from US-bound flights.

AIRLINE passengers bound for the United States faced a hodgepodge of security measures across Europe yesterday, and airports did not appear to be following a US request for increased screening of passengers from 14 countries.

Airline passengers bound for the US faced a jumbled mix of new security measures across Europe today, but not all airports appeared to be following a request for extra screening of those from 14 named countries.

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

An airline passenger from Nigeria who said he was acting on al Qaida's instructions set off an explosive device in a failed terror attack on the plane as it was preparing to land.

A “mind-reading” security scanner which screens the person, rather than their bags, is being tested in the US, it emerged today.

THE US government proposed a third version of its airline passenger pre-screening programme yesterday, stripped of controversial data that had aroused privacy concerns and blocked earlier versions.

Airport security officers in the US have been told to look out for terrorists practising carrying explosive components on to aircraft.

Airline passengers in the US will be allowed to bring most cigarette lighters on board again starting next month, freeing airport screeners to spend more time searching for explosives.

A terminal at Miami International Airport was evacuated briefly today as US authorities checked on a possible explosive device.

US airports and public transport systems are tightening security today following the terrorist incidents in Britain.

Federal security workers in the US have started using hand-held scanners to inspect bottled carry-on liquids for explosives at some of the country's busiest airports, the government said today.

A passenger in an American Eagle plane on the ground at the Toledo airport in Ohio called authorities today on a mobile phone to report a bomb threat, the authorities said.