Suspected Greek terrorists unleashed an unprecedented two-day wave of mail bomb attacks in Athens and abroad, with one package reaching the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

GERMAN police disarmed a potentially harmful package from Greece at German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office yesterday, hours after similar small mail bombs exploded outside the Russian and Swiss embassies in Athens in attacks blamed on Greek far-left extremists.

Bad weather is believed to have been the main cause of the crash today of an Airbus A310 plane in the Indian Ocean.

Mystery tonight still surrounded the loss of an Air France airliner which disappeared into the Atlantic with 228 people on board.

An Air France jet feared to have crashed into the Atlantic with 228 people on board today reported electrical problems shortly before vanishing.

THE PSNI chief constable of Foyle District has warned of a growing dissident Republican threat in Derry with paramilitary groups mounting a recruiting drive in the area.

POLICE in the North made a public appeal yesterday for help in tracking down the rapist of an American student.

Petrol bombers attacked police after a major Protestant march in Derry today.

Governments have been urged to meet the costs of increased security at British airports since the alleged UK terror plot.

Security experts in the UK have dismissed suggestions that the authorities there are over-reacting to the potential terrorist threat posed to passenger aircraft.

THE co-pilot and a flight attendant were among dozens of people still alive when a Cypriot airliner plunged into the mountains north of Athens, deepening the mystery over what incapacitated the flight carrying 121 people.

The Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece may have suffered a sudden loss of cabin pressure at high altitude, causing temperatures and oxygen levels to plummet and leaving everyone aboard suffocating and freezing to death, experts said yesterday.

Greece’s worst plane crash, in which 121 people died yesterday, appeared to have been caused by a sudden drop in oxygen.

AN INVESTIGATION began last night into an aviation “great escape” which saw all 297 passengers and 12 crew survive a plane crash at Toronto airport.

US AIRPORT security was criticised last night after a passenger was arrested for carrying ammunition on a flight from Washington to London.

US airport security was criticised tonight after a passenger was arrested for carrying ammunition on a flight from Washington to London.

POLICE began searching vehicles near Heathrow airport yesterday sparking fears of a possible terrorist missile attack on a low flying plane.

A journalist has been able to board the hold of a jet plane after using bogus references to become a baggage handler.

New fears were raised over airport security tonight when it was revealed that a journalist boarded the hold of a jetliner after using bogus references to become a baggage handler.

An investigation was underway today at one of Britain’s busiest airports over claims that a journalist and photographer got into a passenger plane’s cockpit.

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