
Americans across the world took a moment to remember the victims of the September 11 attacks. The tributes played out across the US. ...

08:26 AM, Sep 12, 2011

Washington: Ten years after the nation was unified in horror, US President Barack Obama honored the legacy of the September 11 victims on Sunday by personally tracing the trail of the terrorist attacks, proudly declaring that the decade since has proven "America does not give in to fear." At ground zero, Obama stood in solidarity with former US President George W Bush right where hijacked airliners smashed into the twin...

07:30 AM, Sep 12, 2011

New York: Americans on Sunday remembered the horror of September 11, 2001, and the nearly 3,000 people who died in the hijacked plane attacks as authorities worked to ensure the emotional 10th anniversary was peaceful. Law enforcement authorities in New York and Washington were on high alert against what was described as a "credible but unconfirmed" threat of an al Qaeda plot to attack the United States again a decade...

02:06 PM, Sep 11, 2011

New Delhi: On the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Steven Spielberg brings a new show about the daunting task of constructing the new, 104-storyed, World Trade Center. Being the Executive Producer of this Discovery Channel show 'Rising: Rebuilding Grond Zero', Spielberg toured the site with the workers during the making of the show. The show celebrates the grit, the drive and the audacious imagination of a wide array...

04:55 PM, Sep 09, 2011

Irish-born photographer Marcus Robinson has spent the last five-years documenting the rebuilding of Ground Zero. ...

03:43 PM, Sep 05, 2011

New York: US President Barack Obama on Thursday made a symbolic visit to the Ground Zero site of the fallen twin towers and said that 9/11 orchestrator Osama bin Laden's death shows America's unfailing commitment to bring terrorists to "justice". During his solemn visit to New York, days after bin Laden was killed by US forces, Obama told a crew of fire fighters that lost 15 members on 9/11 that...

11:50 PM, May 05, 2011

Washington: US President Barack Obama would travel to New York on Thursday to participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the Ground Zero there to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden, the White House has announced. The former President George W Bush, who was invited for the event would not be attending it. "Following the ceremony, the President will meet privately with 9/11 family members. During the trip, the...

11:05 AM, May 05, 2011

Washington: Former President George W Bush has declined an invitation from President Barack Obama to attend a New York ceremony on Thursday to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden, Bush's office said. "He appreciated the invite, but has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight," said Bush spokesman David Sherzer. Obama is to speak at New York's "Ground Zero" and meet families of some of...

08:19 AM, May 04, 2011

Washington: US President Barack Obama has hit out at his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for saying that America was behind the 9/11 attacks. Ahmadinejad in his speech at the UN had suggested that the US was involved in the 9/11 attacks. While speaking to BBC, the President called the comments hateful and inexcusable. Obama lashed out at Ahmadinejad for the latest of what the White House called a long list...

12:54 PM, Sep 25, 2010

The Chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, who is leading the demand for the mosque at the 9/11 site, said that the Oppn is stoking anti-Muslim fears. ...

11:28 AM, Sep 13, 2010
New York: A controversial US pastor, who drew global outrage for his plans to torch copies of Quran, has vowed that he will never do so, even if a mosque is built near Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 terror attacks here. "We will definitely not burn the Quran, no," pastor Terry Jones of Florida told an international news channel. "Not today, not ever," he said when pressed whether...

01:45 PM, Sep 12, 2010
New York/Washington: As America observed the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that shook the world, thousands of rowdy protestors held rallies in Lower Manhattan for and against a proposed controversial Islamic Centre near Ground Zero. Both sides drew large, boisterous crowds with about 3,000 pro-mosque demonstrators marching from City Hall to the Federal Building on Saturday and 2,500 anti-mosque protestors rallying near the controversial Park Place...

12:14 PM, Sep 12, 2010