World Trade Center

Attorney for Osama bin Laden's kin girds for 'good fight'

Agence France-Presse | Thursday May 16, 2013

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law has hired a new lawyer to defend him in the trial he faces in the United States, and the appointment stirred some controversy in the court on Wednesday.

Now the tallest building in the US

Associated Press | Friday May 10, 2013

The silver spire topping One World Trade Center has been fully installed on the building's roof, bringing the iconic structure to its full, symbolic height of 1,776 feet.

Possible 9/11 plane landing gear part found in New York City

Associated Press | Saturday April 27, 2013

A rusted 5-foot (1.5-meter)-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between a luxury apartment building and a mosque ...

New York to sift Ground Zero debris for more remains of 9/11 victims

Press Trust of India | Monday April 1, 2013

New York City will today begin the mammoth task of sifting through the debris of buildings at the World Trade Center site to find more remains of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack that will allow more number of them to be identified.

Algeria hostage crisis: US says no to militants' demand to swap prisoners

Associated Press | Saturday January 19, 2013

The three-day bloody hostage standoff at a natural gas plant in the Sahara took a dramatic turn on Friday as Algeria's state news service reported that nearly 100 of the 132 foreign workers kidnapped by Islamic militants had been freed.

Algeria hostage crisis: Militants offer to trade two Americans for jailed terrorists

Agence France Presse | Friday January 18, 2013

Islamist hostage-takers at a remote Algerian gas field on Friday demanded a prisoner swap and an end to the French military campaign in Mali, a report said, as 30 foreigners were reported still missing in the worst international hostage drama for yea...

9/11 mastermind appears in court in military vest

Agence France-Presse | Thursday October 18, 2012

Self-declared 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed wore a military-style camouflage vest as he appeared at a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday.

Mohamed Morsi wants blind sheikh to serve sentence at home

Agence France-Presse | Thursday September 27, 2012

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi said he wants Omar Abdul Rahman, the Egyptian Muslim cleric jailed in the Unites States for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center attack, to serve out the rest of his sentence at home, state media reported on Thursd...

Status of World Trade Center site, 11 years later

Associated Press | Tuesday September 11, 2012

Eleven years after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the new multibillion-dollar World Trade Center once again dominates the lower Manhattan skyline. Hundreds of construction workers are at the 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site every day, and tour...

Anniversary of 9/11 marked under cloud of health problems, funding fights

Reuters | Monday September 10, 2012

Eleven years after the September 11, 2001, attacks, New Yorkers will mark the anniversary on Tuesday against a backdrop of health concerns for emergency workers and a feud over financing that has stopped construction of the $1 billion Ground Zero mus...

Iran, al-Qaida, Taliban told to pay $6 billion for 9/11

Associated Press | Wednesday August 1, 2012

Al-Qaida, the Taliban and Iran should pay $6 billion to relatives of Sept. 11 victims for aiding in the 2001 terrorist attacks, a federal magistrate judge recommended on Monday in a largely symbolic decision. Even though it will be nearly impossible ...

Sept. 11 most memorable TV moment in past 50 years: Study

Thursday July 12, 2012

The only thing that came close was President John F. Kennedy's assassination and its aftermath in 1963.

World Trade Center is back on top in NYC

Tuesday May 1, 2012

The milestone is a preliminary one. It isn't expected to reach its full height for at least another year.

With an asterik, World Trade Centre is back on top in New York

Associated Press | Tuesday May 1, 2012

One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the September 11 attacks, claimed the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday, as workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton a...

World Trade Center design flaw could cost millions

Associated Press | Wednesday February 1, 2012

The agency building the new World Trade Center says a design flaw could add millions of dollars to the cost of the complex's signature tower. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Tuesday that the loading dock under One World Trade Cent...