Passengers flying with Virgin Atlantic from London to New York will soon be able to make in-flight phone calls using their personal mobile devices.

Only six people will be allowed to talk at once, and phones will still have to be turned off at take-off and landing.

Safety checks have been ordered on helicopters used by air ambulance services across England after a fault was found.

A crack was discovered on the main rotor hub of a Eurocopter EC135 aircraft in Scotland.

Most of the passengers affected after Air New Zealand grounded planes over safety concerns will be able to fly on Tuesday, airline officials say.

At least 5,000 passengers were affected over the last two days when Air New Zealand grounded 11 ATR aircraft of its subsidiary, Mount Cook Airlines.

Emirates Airlines has said it wants compensation from Airbus, saying it will lose $90m (£57m) while repairing its A380 superjumbos affected by hairline cracks in their wings.

Emirates found cracks on the wings of 10 planes it has already inspected.

A small plane which violated presidential airspace in Los Angeles was found carrying 18kg (40lb) of marijuana.

The Cessna plane was intercepted by two F-16 fighter jets after it strayed into restricted airspace around President Barack Obama's helicopter.

The head of Airbus has ordered an internal investigation into how wing cracks developed on its flagship A380 passenger aircraft.

Last month, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) ordered inspections after two types of cracks were discovered on a bracket.

Aircraft maker Airbus has been ordered to check all A380 superjumbo planes currently in service after cracks were found in wing components.

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has ordered all 68 Airbus A380 superjumbo planes currently in operation to be checked.

Twenty Airbus A380s will have to undergo checks for cracks in their wings, the safety regulator has said.

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said the planes, a third of the current fleet, would undergo a "visual inspection" for cracks.

At least six civilians have been killed in a suicide attack at the international airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.

The attack happened outside the perimeter of the airport, where thousands of foreign troops are based. They appear to have been the target, though Nato says none was killed.

Australian aircraft engineers have called for the global fleet of Airbus A380 super-jumbos to be inspected immediately for safety after tiny cracks were found in wing parts of some planes operated by Singapore Airlines and Qantas.

"There is no way on God's earth that I would be waiting four years to inspect them," Paul Cousins, the federal president of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, told a New Zealand news organisation.