Turtles delay US flights

Flights at a US airport were delayed after 150 turtles crawled onto a runway.

Controllers had to move departing flights to a different section of New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport due to the sheer volume of the creatures, who were looking for a beach to lay their eggs, on Runway 4L.

The diamondback terrapins migrate every year around June or July and tend to visit the airport, which is built on the edge of Jamaica Bay.

Ron Marsico - a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the airport - said: "We ceded to Mother Nature."