Dublin Airport set a new record for traffic as it welcomed 32.9 million passengers last year.

Israel’s Cabinet has approved a deal to allow more EU flights, hours after the country’s airlines went on strike out of concerns that the agreement would cost them jobs and possibly even ruin their companies.

FBI investigators were today probing an attack at Los Angeles International Airport during which a lone gunman shot two people dead.

The alleged ‘‘shoe bomber’’ Richard Reid was today preparing to appear in a US court as his parents spoke of their shock that he had apparently tried to bring down a passenger plane.