AP - Police raided Internet cafes, money-transfer offices and long-distance phone call centers catering to Muslims and arrested 40 people in a crackdown linked to Britain's announcement it had thwarted an alleged terror plot, authorities said Friday.

AP - Tougher air travel security procedures were still evolving at U.S. airports early Friday, with a second layer of security check points opening at the airplane gates and National Guard troops arriving to patrol major airports in New York, California and Massachusetts.

AFP - British Airways, forced to cancel flights after police said they had foiled a plot to blow up US-bound planes, is no stranger to severe disruptions at the height of the summer holiday season.

Reuters - Suspected British suicide bombers were just days away from simultaneous attacks on transatlantic airliners when officials said they foiled what one senior police commander called "mass murder on an unimaginable scale."

AP - British police said Thursday they thwarted a terrorist plot, possibly just days away, to blow up U.S.-bound jetliners over the Atlantic and kill thousands. Chilling accounts leaked by investigators described a plan on the scale of 9/11 that would use liquid explosives concealed as sports drink bottles and common electronic devices to bring down as many as 10 planes in a nearly simultaneous strike.