NEW YORK: New York's LaGuardia Airport, famously likened to a "third world country" by Vice President Joe Biden, is to be rebuilt from the ground up, officials announced Monday.

"We want a globally renowned airport for the next century that is worthy of the name New York," Governor Andrew Cuomo announced in a Manhattan hotel ballroom alongside Biden.

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