Alarmed governors of New Jersey and New York have ordered a mandatory, 21-day quarantine of all medical workers and other arriving airline passengers who have had contact with victims of the deadly Ebola disease in west Africa.

An Irishman used forged documents to sell horns from endangered black rhinos to a New York collector for $50,000 (€37,000), prosecutors said yesterday.

A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the US, ending a nearly month-long diplomatic tussle that had tested US-China relations.

All Aer Lingus flights scheduled to operate to and from New York today have been cancelled because of Hurricane Irene.

New York City's mayor has told residents who need to evacuate ahead of the anticipated arrival of Hurricane Irene that they should do so immediately.

US taxi drivers are once again picking up passengers at Newark Liberty International Airport after staging a five-hour shutdown to protest against the arrest of a fellow cabbie.

Shannon Airport Authority has called for an aggressive US marketing campaign to capitalise on the first signs of recovery in the transatlantic market.

Blizzard conditions dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the US north east, stranding thousands of airline, bus and rail passengers, with lashing winds and low visibility also buffeting workers returning to their post-Christmas routines.

US senators criticised authorities regarding an airport security breach at the weekend as a video of the incident emerged showing a guard standing nearby as a man followed a woman into the terminal.

An airport security guard who was overheard saying he had “cut a hole in a fence to be able to shoot” Barack Obama pleaded not guilty to making terror threats against the US president.

TWO minutes after he cleared a private plane for takeoff and a fateful flight over the Hudson River, an air traffic controller at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport was on the phone with a woman in the airport operations office, joking about barbecuing a dead cat.

INDIA reacted with outrage yesterday after Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan said he was detained for questioning at a US airport, though immigration officials denied he was formally held.

An air traffic controller on duty during last week’s deadly midair collision over New York’s Hudson River was talking on the phone at the time, safety officials said today.

US authorities said 49 people are dead after a commuter plane crashed into a home in suburban Buffalo and erupted in flames.

Lightning struck a London-bound flight shortly after take-off, forcing it to return to Newark Liberty International Airport, the US airport’s operator said.

A suspected terrorist cell planned a "chilling" attack to destroy New York's John F Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through residential neighbourhoods, US authorities said tonight.

Federal security workers in the US have started using hand-held scanners to inspect bottled carry-on liquids for explosives at some of the country's busiest airports, the government said today.

A new airline today announced plans to raise £25m (€36m) for the launch of a low-fares operation serving New York-bound business class travellers from the UK.

IRELAND escaped lightly from great blasts of snow, ice and freezing temperatures that wrought havoc across Britain and much of Europe and the US yesterday.

A man trying to board a Los Angeles-bound flight was arrested after an eight-inch dagger was found inside one of his shoes.

A British man was appearing in a US court today after being arrested by the FBI over an alleged plot to smuggle into the United States a shoulder-fired missile capable of taking down a commercial airliner.

The wife of CNN Moneyline host Lou Dobbs was arrested at a New Jersey airport security checkpoint after a loaded gun was found in her handbag.