Car giant Toyota has been hit by more than 100 complaints in the US and Japan about brake problems with its flagship Prius hybrid, it emerged today, in a new blow as it grapples with massive global recalls.

America is to ban truck and bus drivers from texting as it tries to catch up with much of the developed world in mobile phone road safety.

Blocked toilets, crying babies and airless cabins make air travellers furious – and the US government says they don’t have to take it any more.

THE driver of Boston subway train that came to a screeching halt just before hitting a woman who had fallen onto the tracks has been hailed as a hero.

US President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen to support the bid by the city of Chicago to host the 2016 Olympic Games.

Authorities were today trying to identify the most recently discovered human remains from last week’s interstate bridge collapse in Minnesota as recovery teams worked to find more bodies of the handful of people still missing.

US President George Bush got a firsthand view today of the devastation at the site of the bridge collapse in Minneapolis.

European companies would be allowed larger stakes in US airlines under a tentative agreement reached between the US and European Union.

US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has slammed Britney Spears for driving with her infant son on her lap.

WITH the last weary refugees rescued from the Superdome and Convention Centre, New Orleans turned its attention yesterday to gathering up and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses.

An agreement designed to relieve congestion at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and ease airline delays across the United States will be extended for six months, transportation secretary Norman Mineta announced.

A passenger train has derailed and tumbled into a ravine, killing at least 10 people and injuring 120, Philippine officials said today.

Security officers shot and killed the Philippines’ former top civil aviation administrator, and a navy reserve officer, who had seized the airport control tower in the capital Manila at gunpoint early today.

Two former US Navy ships contaminated with chemicals, travelling to Britain from the United States, are expected to reach the Channel tomorrow, the Coastguard said today.

The ban on air services between the US and Iraq has been lifted for the first time in nearly 13 years.

The US administration plans to adopt a small-scale test programme of arming commercial pilots, reversing its previous opposition to guns in the cockpit.

A man who boarded a United Airlines flight carrying nine knives, tear gas and a stun gun has not been linked to any terrorist activity.

The US Congress and the White House has agreed on a $15bn (£10.2bn) plan to financially bolster the airline industry.

The White House and Congress are considering a federal aid package for the airline industry to help it recover from last week’s attacks.

US Federal Aviation Authority officials are to allow air travel in America to resume at 4pm Irish time today.