Police are to reinterview a Colorado couple today as speculation mounted that the balloon drama that sparked a frenzied search for their six-year-old son was a huge publicity stunt.

THE father of a 6-year-old boy who was thought to be in a helium balloon that floated away and was pursued by military helicopters said yesterday accusations that the ordeal was a publicity stunt are “extremely pathetic”.

The father of a boy feared to have been carried away in a balloon today angrily denied the drama which gripped millions was a publicity stunt.

TWO commercial pilots allegedly fell asleep on a US flight, with one pilot waking up to “frantic” calls from air traffic controllers warning that they were approaching the airport at twice the speed allowed.

Two airline pilots fell asleep in the cockpit on the approach to a major international airport, it emerged today.

Seven months after disappearing from her owner’s garden in the western US state of Colorado, a terrier named Daisy turned up in Knoxville, Tennessee - 1,300 miles away.

Heavy snow blew across Colorado today, cancelling hundreds of airline flights and shutting down a major road, as a large storm ploughed on to the plains after pummelling New Mexico.

A teenage bank robber whose Australian accent gave away his identity pleaded guilty today to robbing a bank in Colorado in the US at gunpoint.

A woman passed through security screening at New York’s LaGuardia Airport with a stun gun and knife in her bag – and then alerted officials after discovering her mistake.