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12/26/2009 2:21:51 PM

Police enter the basement of a building where police are searching in Mansfield Street in London, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. The search was reportedly in connection with the attempted terrorist attack on a Northwestern Airline flight as it prepared to land in Detroit on Friday , (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP - A 23-year-old Nigerian man who claimed to have ties to al-Qaida was charged Saturday with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, as authorities around the world urgently sought to learn more about him.


12/26/2009 2:33:53 PM

Graphic shows the interior of the Northwest Airbus A330 and its flight path from Nigeria.AP - U.S. government officials tell The Associated Press that the Nigerian man charged with trying to destroy a jetliner came to the attention of U.S. intelligence in November when his father went to the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, to express his concerns about his son.


12/26/2009 12:53:44 PM

Transportation Security Administration agent Paul Marshall helps an international traveler at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich., Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. Officials were trying to calm traveler's fears a day after an attempted terrorist attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight as it was about to land in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Some airlines were telling passengers on Saturday that new government security regulations prohibit them from leaving their seats beginning an hour before landing


12/26/2009 12:57:01 PM

Delores Simmons, left, of Dorchester Mass., and her daughter Kaya, 10, unload their shopping cart at a Walmart in Framingham, Mass., Saturday Dec. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger)AP - Shoppers headed to America's malls Saturday, many with gift cards in hand, hoping to snag after-Christmas discounts. They were greeted with big markdowns — in some cases topping 75 percent off — but often found limited selection.


12/26/2009 1:53:12 PM

A Delta Airbus 330 airliner sits on a runway at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan in this video grab made December 25, 2009. REUTERS/WDIV TV/HandoutReuters - A Nigerian man with possible links to al Qaeda militants was charged on Saturday for trying to blow up a U.S. passenger plane with an explosive device on approach into Detroit, U.S. officials said.


12/26/2009 2:12:51 PM

A sign reading No Third Runway is attached to a lampost in front of a road sign for Heathrow Airport at Sipson near London, December 8, 2009. Airports and airlines across Europe moved rapidly to tighten security on U.S.-bound flights on Saturday after a man tried to set off explosives on a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit. REUTERS/Luke MacGregorReuters - Airports and airlines across Europe moved rapidly to tighten security on U.S.-bound flights on Saturday after a man tried to set off explosives on a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit.


12/26/2009 2:09:47 PM
Reuters - A bomb exploded in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Saturday, targeting a car used by members of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
12/26/2009 2:20:42 PM

Cpl. Frederick of the Wayne County Airport Police and his bomb-sniffing dog Spencer patrol at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. A 23-year-old Nigerian man was charged Saturday with trying to blow up a packed airplane as it descended toward Detroit on Christmas Day, US officials said.(AFP/Getty Images/Bill Pugliano)AFP - US justice officials charged Saturday a young Nigerian man with attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day with 289 people on board.


12/26/2009 1:00:19 PM

Thai Buddhist monks lead collective prayers during a remembrance ceremony for the victims of the tsunami which battered the Indian Ocean coastlineat Patong beach in the southern Thai island of Phuket. People across Asia are pausing to remember the day five years ago when an undersea earthquake unleashed a devastating wave that killed more than 220,000 people.(AFP/Christophe Archambault)AFP - People across Asia paused Saturday to remember the day five years ago when an undersea earthquake unleashed a devastating wave that killed more than 220,000 people.


12/26/2009 1:00:00 PM
A Nigerian man who allegedly ignited an incendiary device on a transatlantic flight Friday has been charged with attempting to destroy the plane, the Justice Department said.
12/26/2009 12:48:00 PM
From the moment a Carnegie Melon researcher figured out that a colon and a parenthesis could make a face, the Internet has provided its own unique additions to popular culture. Over the past decade, lolcats, rickrolling and Star Wars kid are just a few of an entirely new form of culture that came into its own over the past decade.
12/26/2009 2:50:02 PM
A Nigerian is charged with attempting to destroy a passenger jet arriving in the US by detonating a bomb on board.
12/26/2009 2:10:55 PM
Eight Turkish soldiers are detained over an alleged plot to assassinate the deputy prime minister, the army says.
12/26/2009 2:46:07 PM
Police search a number of properties in central London as a man is charged with trying to blow up a US airliner over Detroit.
12/26/2009 7:18:58 AM
Police searching for a 13-year-old boy missing since Christmas Eve believe they have found his body in Hertfordshire.
12/26/2009 12:17:24 PM
Lebanese security officials are reporting a mysterious blast in a Hezbollah stronghold south of Beirut, but say the cause is ...


12/26/2009 10:34:39 AM
A string of attacks Saturday against Shiite pilgrims in eastern Baghdad killed five, the latest round of violence to strike worshippers ...


12/26/2009 10:26:44 AM
Fewer earthquakes have been recorded in the Philippines' lava-spilling Mayon volcano, but magma continues to build up inside ...


12/26/2009 11:53:57 AM
Israeli soldiers stormed homes in the West Bank on Saturday, killing three Palestinians suspected in the fatal shooting of an ...


12/26/2009 1:59:22 PM
Pope Benedict XVI appeared in good shape on Saturday as he addressed the faithful two days after a woman knocked him down at ...


12/26/2009 7:14:18 AM
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed three people Saturday in a northwest Pakistani tribal region where militants focused on ...


12/26/2009 6:05:10 AM
Shoppers returned to malls Saturday, rummaging through thinly stocked shelves hunting for deals, next year's Christmas gifts ...


12/25/2009 11:49:23 PM
Deep-sea divers searched Saturday for a sunken ferry and 24 missing people after it collided with another vessel and went down ...


12/26/2009 12:59:25 PM
Federal authorities on Saturday charged a Nigerian man with attempting to destroy an aircraft on its final approach to Detroit ...


12/26/2009 3:48:01 AM
The body of a Maryland girl who authorities say was abducted by a registered sex offender was found Friday in a wooded area near ...


12/26/2009 2:28:50 PM
The father of a man suspected of trying to bring down a U.S. jet contacted the U.S. Embassy to warn his son had "become radicalized," a source says.
12/25/2009 11:16:13 PM
A kidnapped girl was rescued on Christmas Day after a dramatic police chase on the streets of Phoenix, Arizona.
12/26/2009 4:48:47 AM
Actor Charlie Sheen was arrested early Friday and charged with several offenses with a domestic violence component, Aspen, Colorado, police said.
12/26/2009 9:29:16 AM
Political conflict and public piety converged on tension-filled streets in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday. Clashes erupted between riot police and opposition protesters as hundreds of people solemnly took part in an annual Shiite Muslim observance.
12/26/2009 10:45:23 AM
Israeli forces rces killed six Palestinians in separate incidents in the West Bank and Gaza early Saturday, acts that quickly drew Palestinian condemnation.
12/25/2009 5:41:53 AM
A Salvation Army major was shot dead in front of his three children on Christmas Eve in North Little Rock, Arkansas, authorities said.


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