A British Embassy vehicle was attacked in Yemen today, the Foreign Office said.

Two men suspected of carrying out a dry run for a terrorist attack on an airliner were being questioned by police today.

Christmas Day airline bomb suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been shown on a video training with al-Qaida in Yemen.

Britain's Foreign Office said today that it was “urgently” looking into reports of an explosion near a convoy carrying the British ambassador to Yemen.

The US government is changing its terror-screening policy to focus on specific terror threats and not travellers' nationalities.

The Nigerian accused of the Christmas Day airline bomb attack has been co-operating with investigators and providing fresh intelligence in multiple terrorism investigations, senior US sources said.

AL-QAIDA leader Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt in Detroit, in a audio message released yesterday, and vowed further attacks on the US.

For hours after allegedly trying to use a bomb hidden in his underwear to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab talked and talked – to US Customs officers, medical personnel, and FBI agents.

America's intelligence chief made a blunder of his own after he admitted top-level errors over the handling of the Christmas Day plane bomb attempt.

British police who searched a plane at the centre of an alleged bomb threat found nothing and have released it back to the airline, they said today.

A NOT GUILTY plea has been entered on behalf of a Nigerian man charged with attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound US airliner on Christmas Day.

A young Nigerian man, wearing a white T-shirt and trainers, made his first public court appearance in Detroit tonight to face charges of trying to ignite a chemical-laden explosive on a US airliner on Christmas Day.

The man charged with attempting to blow up a plane on Christmas Day is due to appear in court in the US.

A Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a packed US airliner on Christmas Day will appear in court in Detroit, Michigan, today.

Barack Obama said security lapses that led to a near-disaster in the Christmas Day attack on a US-bound airliner were not the fault of an individual or agency.

US security decided the Detroit airline bomber was suspect after he was already in the air, it emerged today.

The man accused of attempting to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day was recruited by al-Qaida in London, a senior minister in Yemen’s government claimed today.

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.

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.

US intelligence agencies did not miss a “smoking gun” that could have prevented an alleged attempt to blow up a US airliner on Christmas Day, President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser said today.

Gordon Brown today called a high-level international meeting in London to discuss methods of countering radicalisation in Yemen, in the wake of the Christmas Day airline bomb attack.

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.

THE Netherlands announced yesterday it will immediately begin using full body scanners for flights heading to the United States, issuing a report that called the failed Christmas Day airline bombing a “professional” terror attack.

A MAN tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that could have caused an explosion in a case bearing chilling similarities to the terrorist plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials told reporters yesterday.

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 Netherlands announced today it will immediately begin using full body scanners for flights heading to the United States, issuing a report that called the failed Christmas Day airline bombing a “professional” terror attack.

A Somali national tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month with powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that together could have caused an explosion, officials said today.

American security services received intelligence suggesting “a Nigerian” in Yemen was planning a terrorist attack weeks before a passenger jet was targeted on Christmas Day, reports said today.

The Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect helped organise a “war on terror” conference while studying in the UK, it emerged today.

A “systemic failure” by American intelligence allowed the alleged terrorist behind the Christmas Day airliner bomb plot to board the aircraft despite warnings about his extremist views, US President Barack Obama said last night.

A “systemic failure” by American intelligence allowed the alleged terrorist behind the Christmas Day airliner bomb plot to board the aircraft despite warnings about his extremist views, US President Barack Obama said tonight.

The Christmas Day airline bomber apparently charted his descent into lonely fanaticism in hundreds of internet postings.

Yemen today said it let the Christmas Day airline bomber into the country twice because no-one warned them he was a security threat.

The alleged terrorist behind the Christmas Day airliner plot is said to have told US agents there are more people “just like him” ready to carry out future attacks.

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 US State Department said counterterror agencies were warned that the Nigerian man who allegedly tried to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day may be under extremists’ influence.

THE Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a US airliner cut off contact with his relatives and vanished from their lives until they awoke to news of the attempted Christmas Day attack, his family said yesterday.

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.

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano conceded today that the aviation security system failed when a man on a watchlist with a powerful explosive hidden on his body was allowed to board a fight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

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