The central terminal at New York’s LaGuardia Airport was evacuated today after a man entered the building with a fake bomb in a bag, police said.

The sole surviving Somali pirate from the hostage-taking of an American ship captain arrived in New York today, smiling for a gaggle of cameras and reporters as US federal agents led him into custody to face charges in the attack.

Naomi Campbell has come under fire from angry travellers after she was allowed to cut in line at a New York airport to get through customs upon arriving in the US from London.

A judge in Trinidad has ordered three men to be extradited to the US to face charges over an alleged plot to attack New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport, as a confidential document said they planned to seek help from Iran.

A convicted drug dealer who agreed to pose as a potential terrorist among a shadowy group accused of plotting to blow up John F Kennedy International Airport secretly fed information to US investigators in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Paul McCartney begged New York photographers and cameramen to leave him alone during a confrontation yesterday, during which he accused them of harassing him.

None of the men arrested at a New York airport were terrorists attempting a repeat of Tuesday’s hijackings, it was revealed today.