US court gives lifer to Nigerian 'underwear bomber'

A US district court has sentenced Nigeria's "underwear bomber" to life in prison for his role in trying to blow up a packed airliner on Christmas Day 2009. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 25, was......

Obama sacks intel chief Dennis Blair

President Obama has asked his Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair to step down. As director of National intelligence, Blair was responsible for collationof intelligence among the 16......

'Man removed from NY bound plane not Nigerian'

Nigeria's aviation authorities said thatthe passenger arrested from a New York-bound flight and detained in Puerto Rico for being on US' 'no-fly list', was a Gambian and not a Nigerian national and......

US may stop nationality based 'strip search'

The United States is reportedly planning to discontinue its policy of nationality based security checks of America-bound travelers and will now select passengers for special scrutiny at airports on......