False Bomb Alarm

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  Couple Mentions "Bomb In The Bag" At Goa Airport, Detained

  Police detained a couple after they mentioned about "a bomb in the bag" -- which turned out to be a false alarm -- during security check at Goa's Dabolim International Airport, delaying the flight they were to board by almost 90 minutes, an official

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  14 French Airports Receive Bomb Threats, 8 evacuated

  At least 14 French airports received bomb threats on Thursday, with at least eight evacuated, in the latest series of false alarms that have rattled the country over the past week.

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  Drunk Man's Bomb Hoax Call Triggers Searches At Secretariat In Mumbai

  Bomb detection personnel searched the Maharashtra secretariat in Mumbai after police received a phone call about an explosive being placed in the high-security complex, but it turned out to be a false alarm, an official said.

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  Malaysia-Bound Flight Delayed After Bomb Hoax At Delhi Airport: Report

  A Malaysia-bound flight on Friday was delayed over a false bomb alarm after a fight between two passengers on board the plane at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here, officials said.

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  Bomb Scare Was 'False Alarm', Says Air France

  Air France chief executive Frederic Gagey said today that a bomb scare that prompted one of the airline's planes to make an emergency landing in Kenya had been a "false alarm".

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  'Drunken Pole' Causes Bomb Scare on Egypt-Bound Plane

  A bomb alert that forced a Polish airliner bound for Egypt to emergency land in Bulgaria early today was a false alarm caused by a "drunken Pole talking rubbish," Bulgaria's premier said.

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  Bomb Scare Proves False Alarm Near Hollywood Venue for Oscars

  A bomb scare triggered by an erratic motorist brandishing a propane tank at a shopping strip near the Hollywood venue for the upcoming Oscars show proved to be a false alarm on Thursday, but the man was detained, Los Angeles police said.

• Air France bomb threat in Caracas was false alarm: officials

  A bomb threat that forced the evacuation of an Air France jet in Caracas was a false alarm, Venezuelan authorities said today.

• 'Suspicious' bags found in Delhi declared false alarms: 10 developments

  Delhi was on edge this evening after two bags that appeared suspicious were found in different parts of the city. Both turned out to be false alarms, but in one case the Army's elite bomb disposal squad was called in and it destroyed the bag.

• Russian bomb squad called in to defuse sex toy

  Anti-terrorist bomb squad experts were called to a post office in the northwest of Russia to make safe a package from which a strange ticking sound was coming, local police have said.They found a vibrator.The incident took place at Petrozavodsk in the republic of Karelia and followed a call from a postal worker who had identified a suspect package,...

• Pakistan: Plane arrives after false bomb threat

  Passengers from a Pakistani jet that was diverted to Stockholm for several hours for fear that one of its passengers was carrying explosives arrived safely in Karachi on Sunday.Police evacuated 273 people from the jet and briefly detained a Canadian man, after an anonymous caller in Canada tipped off authorities that the suspect was carrying explos...

• Times Square reopens after 'suspicious package' report

  NYPD bomb squad has said cooler in Times Square is not a threat and has opened streets to traffic.

• Police declares Times Square scare to be a false alarm

  New York Police Department bomb squad has said cooler in Times Square is not a threat and has opened streets to traffic. The Police has declared the scare to be a false alarm.