An Air France plane had to make an emergency landing in the US half an hour after taking off, officials said today.

A 19-year-old student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology walked into Boston’s Logan International Airport on Friday with a fake bomb strapped to the outside of her sweatshirt and was arrested at gunpoint.

With babies at their breasts, nursing mothers staged airport protests around the United States today after a woman was ordered off a plane last month for breastfeeding her daughter too openly.

An overseas flight from London’s Heathrow Airport to Washington, D.C. was diverted to Boston today after the pilot declared an emergency because of a passenger disturbance, the airline said.

GROWING lines of irritated travellers snaked through US airports yesterday as people waited hours to reach security checkpoints, then had to dump their water bottles, suntan lotion and even toothpaste following the discovery of a terror plot in Britain.

GROWING lines of irritated travellers snaked through US airports yesterday as people waited hours to reach security checkpoints, then had to dump their water bottles, suntan lotion and even toothpaste following the discovery of a terror plot in Britain.

Three-tonne concrete panels fell from the roof of Boston’s Big Dig cross-city tunnel, killing a woman in a car and shutting down a section of the massive US building project.

A London-bound jet made an emergency landing in Boston early today after smoke was reported in the cockpit.

Boston airport partially reopened today but schools and courts were closed in many areas as the north-east US struggled to recover from the weekend’s blizzard.

Five firefighters were injured battling a blaze aboard a British Airways plane early today.

Airliners about to take off from Philadelphia and Boston were searched today after a caller reported “an item” on an American Airlines jet preparing to take off for Boston.

SOME schools stayed closed yesterday and airlines struggled to catch up as the US north-east plowed out after the powerful weekend snowstorm that piled snow nearly four feet deep in places.

PEOPLE across the northeastern United States yesterday began to dig out from the region’s first major winter storm, which dumped more than a foot of snow, closed airports and left thousands without power.

A DOCTOR working as a translator at the US prison camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was arrested yesterday.

THE voices of children marked the profound horror and grief of September 11 yesterday, joining in song at Ground Zero and reading the names of 2,792 loved ones who died there exactly two years ago.

The voices of children marked the profound horror and grief of September 11 today, joining in song at Ground Zero and reading the names of 2,792 loved ones who died there exactly two years ago.

AMERICA paused yesterday to remember the unforgettable — with the tolling of bells, recitations of the names of the dead, and above all, with silence. “Today, we remember each life,” said President Bush.

A US marine biologist has been charged with interfering with aircraft operation after an incident at Boston's Logan International airport. Dr Richard H. Lambertsen allegedly told the captain and crew of a Delta Airlines Flight to Orlando that people could get killed.

A US marine biologist has been charged with interfering with aircraft operation after an incident at Boston's Logan International airport. Dr Richard H. Lambertsen allegedly told the captain and crew of a Delta Airlines Flight to Orlando that people could get killed.

The man who boarded a jetliner with explosives allegedly hidden in his shoes was a Sri Lankan national travelling on a British passport, French police disclosed today.

FBI agents are continuing to question an air passenger said to have tried to detonate explosives packed in his shoes.

A man who had explosives in his shoes had to be subdued by fellow passengers on a flight from Paris to Miami.

A man who had been identified by federal authorities as a possible hijacker involved in Tuesday's terrorist attacks is alive and cooperating with the FBI, sources said Thursday.

The US plane hijackers murdered stewardesses with knives to draw pilots from their cockpits, it emerged today as investigators began to piece together the full horror of the worst terror attack in history.

The first-ever grounding of all flights in the United States will remain in effect until at least noon EDT Wednesday due to security concerns following Tuesday's hijackings of airliners that were then crashed into buildings, the Federal Aviation Administration said.