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

Air passengers flying to the United States will have to make sure their mobile phones and tablets are charged.

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.

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.

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

Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, golf clubs and souvenir baseball bats onto US planes from next month.

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.

At least 19 people have died after a bus plunged into a ravine in Algeria, according to reports.

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

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

An American Airlines flight bound for New York City was halted at San Francisco just before take-off, following a threat against the plane.

Travellers in Ireland are reportedly suffering illnesses because of poor conditions in halting sites around the country.

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.

Passengers flying into the United States from Nigeria, Yemen and other “countries of interest” will be subject to enhanced screening techniques, such as body scans and pat-downs, the US Transportation Security Administration said.

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

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.

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.

A Pakistani woman whose daughter’s carry-on luggage caused an airport to shut down for nine and a half hours says it was her ethnic background, not a few bottles of suspicious liquids, that set off security officials.

A British pilot was hauled off a transatlantic flight at the last minute because he had a “Muslim sounding name”, he said today.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has been removed from the federal government’s terrorist watch list, a New York congressman said yesterday.

US airline passengers will be allowed to carry small scissors and tools onto planes, reversing a rule that led to confiscation of many thousands of sharp objects at airports since the September 11 terror attacks, a Homeland Security Department official said today.

THE US federal agency in charge of aviation security is considering major changes in how it screens airline passengers, including proposals that an official said would lift the ban on carrying razorblades and small knives as well as limit patdown searches.

An Alitalia jet en route from Milan to Boston, diverted to Maine today because the name of a passenger on board matched that of a person on the US government’s no-fly list, has landed safely.

The US government is to check the background of all foreigners applying to flight schools.

THE lunatics have clearly taken over the asylum as evidenced by the diversion of the Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens flight in the US (Irish Examiner, September 23).

The refusal to allow singer Yusuf Islam into the US on national security grounds was a “slap in the face of sanity”, a Muslim group said today.

Singer Cat Stevens and his daughter were escorted off a diverted transatlantic flight by FBI agents, it emerged today.

Two security alerts at Los Angeles Airport sparked travel chaos in the United States today as several terminals were shut down.

Golden Girls star Bea Arthur sparked a security scare at Boston's Logan International Airport earlier this week when she tried to board a flight with a pocket knife in her handbag.

A US government official has apologised to Senator Edward Kennedy, who was stopped at airports because a name similar to his appeared on the government’s no-fly list of terror suspects.

A top government official has apologised to Senator Edward Kennedy, who was stopped at airports because a name similar to his appeared on the government’s no-fly list of terror suspects.

People who use sunbeds are being given “shockingly bad advice” by health clubs and tanning shops, according to a report published today.

Airport security screeners refused to let a cancer patient board a flight home to Denver because they said she no longer resembled her identification photos.

A woman passed through security screening at New York’s LaGuardia Airport with a stun gun and knife in her bag – and then alerted officials after discovering her mistake.

Box cutters – the type of weapon used by the September 11 hijackers – have been found aboard two aeroplanes in America, it emerged today.

THE Bush administration pledged yesterday to move more aggressively against potential threats in the wake of an incident in which federal authorities said a young man boasted about successfully compromising airline security.

All commercial flights in America were being searched tonight after box cutters and other potential weapons were found concealed on two planes.

Airport security workers found a loaded handgun stuffed inside a brown teddy bear that a nine-year-old boy was carrying on a trip home after his family’s Florida holiday.