Bomber's father warned he was a risk

WASHINGTON: As FBI agents charged Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, from Nigeria, with attempting to destroy Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam, authorities were confronting an uncomfortable reality - their suspect had boarded an aircraft despite warnings from his father, a former Nigerian economics minister, that his son had adopted extremist views.

Council to block new apartments

MARIBYRNONG council is opposing a large apartment block development in Yarraville because it is dangerously close to the Mobil fuel terminal.