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By ED WHITE — The Associated Press A Nigerian man returned to court Thursday to be sentenced to life in prison for trying to destroy a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas 2009 while on a suicide mission for al-Qaida.

A bomb hidden in the underwear of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, now 25, caused a fire but failed to explode on a Delta Airlines flight from Amsterdam carrying 289 people on December 25. Abdulmutallab, who wore a white T-shirt and skull cap, sat impassively as the sentence

By The Associated Press DETROIT — A US federal judge ordered life in prison Thursday for a young Nigerian man who turned away from a privileged life and tried to blow up a packed international flight with a bomb concealed in his underwear.

A Nigerian who tried to blow up an international flight near Detroit on behalf of al-Qaida has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The so-called ''underwear bomber,'' Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to blow up a jetliner landing in Detroit on Christmas Day 2009. When he was handed multiple life sentences, he announced in a Detroit courtroom that one day al-Qaeda would be

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