HANDCUFFED and marched through Washington’s Dulles International Airport in his Muslim clothing, the man with the long, dark beard could only imagine what people were thinking.

Web services company AOL Global Operations Limited have announced 20 new software engineering jobs at its Dublin Development Centre with immediate effect.

Plans to create 50 jobs were revealed today by internet giant AOL.

NOTHING is more appropriate than the fact that America will today celebrate the annual public holiday dedicated to the memory of Reverend Martin Luther King.

The elder daughter of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet has requested asylum in the US after being taken into custody at Dulles International Airport.

THE video footage acquired by the Associated Press newsagency at Dulles Airport shows hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Majed Moqed, each dressed in trousers and collared shirts, setting off metal detectors as they pass through security around 7:18am.

Some of the hijackers who crashed a jetliner into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, twice set off alarms as they passed through airport metal detectors, but security screeners did not appear to question them about knives they were apparently carrying, according to a newly disclosed surveillance video.

Surveillance video from Washington Dulles International Airport the morning of September 11, 2001, shows four of the five hijackers being pulled aside to undergo additional scrutiny after setting off metal detectors – but then permitted to board the fateful flight that crashed into the Pentagon.

Chilling radio transmissions by the September 11 hijackers from the planes they commandeered were played for the first time today.

Virgin will base a new budget airline for the United States in San Francisco with its corporate headquarters in New York, it has been announced.

SIX US-bound flights from England, Scotland and France have been cancelled because of security concerns.

Six US-bound flights from England, Scotland and France were cancelled yesterday because of security concerns.

The cancellation of British Airways flight BA223 from Heathrow to Washington was caused by a “real and definite threat”, a defence expert warned today.

A British Airways flight from Heathrow to Washington has been cancelled for the second time over security fears.

A man was in custody today after being restrained by a flight crew when he approached the cockpit of an American aircraft.

British Airways security officials are deciding today whether to operate its afternoon flight to Washington after cancelling yesterday’s service because of fears over security.

Members of a Russian orchestra were ordered off a US plane after complaints they were drunk and disorderly.

Three Tunisians attending flight schools in Florida, including a student who acknowledged knowing a flatmate of terrorist hijacker Mohamed Atta, were ordered deported yesterday.

The air traffic controller who watched the last minutes of the hijacked flight which crashed into the Pentagon told today how she believed it was heading for the White House.