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

Europe appeared divided today regarding the need for airport full-body scanners today with some countries dismissing the need for tougher security measures.

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.

Australian airline Qantas moved to inspect oxygen cylinders on its entire fleet today as investigators focused on a missing tank as the suspected cause of a mid-air blast that tore a hole in a jumbo jet carrying more than 350 people.

Australian investigators were exploring the possibility today that an oxygen cylinder could have exploded mid-flight on the Qantas jumbo jet from London that was forced to plunge 20,000 feet and make an emergency landing in the Philippines.

Australian investigators today began examining a stricken Qantas jumbo jet that made a emergency landing in the Philippines with a giant hole in its fuselage.

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

The war on terror is making an American flame sputter.

Lighters are to be banned on all flights from the United States amid fears they could be used to ignite bombs, it emerged today.

THE United States is pressing ahead with a system to screen all air travellers, giving each a ‘red’, ‘yellow’ or ‘green’ rating depending on the security threat they pose, it emerged yesterday.