The government sought on Tuesday to allay fears that body scanners being introduced at airports would break laws against creating indecent images of children. Transport officials said the scanners would be introduced at Heathrow within weeks and then rolled out to other airports as part of efforts to tighten security after the failed US airliner bomb plot on Christmas Day ...

Canadian air force paratroopers on Monday rescued a teenager adrift overnight on an Arctic ice floe and threatened by polar bears, an official told AFP. The 17-year-old boy and an older friend had been hunting near Coral Harbor, Nunavut when they became separated and lost on Sunday. The teen, who was not immediately identified, was rescued Monday after a night ...