AN INFORMANT who helped break up an alleged plot to bomb a fuel pipeline feeding New York’s busiest airport was so convincing to the suspects they thanked God he was with them, federal authorities said.

A convicted drug dealer who agreed to pose as a potential terrorist among a shadowy group accused of plotting to blow up John F Kennedy International Airport secretly fed information to US investigators in exchange for a lighter sentence.

A suspected terrorist cell planned a "chilling" attack to destroy New York's John F Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through residential neighbourhoods, US authorities said tonight.

Calling them traitors, Malaysia’s tourism minister said taxi drivers who were rude to visitors should be “lined up against the wall and shot,” a newspaper reported today.

Police cordoned off Prague’s Old Town today and ordered residents to evacuate as emergency workers tried to save the historic district.

The Afghan vice-president has been assassinated outside his offices in Kabul, according to reports.