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/ 8 September 2011
US stocks rallied for the first time in three days after a German court backed the country’s role in bailing out other European countries.
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/ 7 September 2011
A top US space scientist has pleaded guilty to attempted espionage for selling secret material to an undercover agent he thought was an Israeli spy.
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/ 7 September 2011
It is the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that changed the US forever. Tell us your story.
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/ 7 September 2011
Margaret Chin has been trying to help the area and its residents around the vicinity of the World Trade Centre to recover from the devastation.
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/ 7 September 2011
Frank Lione had cancelled his NYPD shift on September 11 — but he ended up ferrying body parts from Ground Zero in the small hours.
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/ 7 September 2011
Dr Paula Madrid was 25, newly qualified with a doctorate in clinical psychology, when the events of 9/11 kick-started her career.
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/ 7 September 2011
After losing her brother, Edie Lutnick found that caring for others helped her to heal.
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/ 7 September 2011
Richard Clarke recalls his feelings on the day of Osama Bin Laden’s death and reveals his anger at the way the aftermath of 9/11 was handled.
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/ 7 September 2011
"I saw a mushroom cloud. I was thinking nukes": a civilian employee recalls the moment American Airlines Flight 77 smashed into the Pentagon.
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/ 7 September 2011
One of 3 000 boys and girls who lost a parent during 9/11, Eamon Stewart wanted nothing more than a normal childhood.
Barack Obama is planning about $300-billion in tax cuts and government spending as part of a job-creating package, US media reports say.
New York has absorbed many horrors through its history, but most traces of them have long since been allowed to vanish.
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/ 7 September 2011
Wildfires sweeping across Texas have destroyed more than 1 000 homes in the last several days as they move into more populated areas.
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/ 7 September 2011
Carol Bartz has been fired over the phone by Roy Bostock, ending a tumultuous tenure marked by stagnation and a rift with Chinese partner Alibaba.
Nasa is making plans to leave the International Space Station unmanned for a few days in case the Russian rocket can’t be fixed before mid-November.
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/ 6 September 2011
Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann’s campaign manager, Ed Rollins, and his deputy are leaving their roles.
Several books insist twin tower attacks were all part of a United States government plot to justify going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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/ 5 September 2011
This year’s Burning Man event, appropriately themed Rites of Passage, begins a shift from a for-profit moneymaker into a not-for-profit.
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/ 5 September 2011
The decade since the terror attacks in the US has been filled with needless destruction — but no revenge.
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/ 3 September 2011
Iraqi officals will investigate allegations that US soldiers handcuffed and executed women and children during a raid in 2006.
Maria Sharapova was knocked out of the US Open on Friday in a shock third round loss, while Andy Murray was lucky to survive five sets.
Google’s Android software strengthened its grip on the US smartphone market, powering nearly 42% of handsets as of July, an industry tracker says.
President Barack Obama is preparing a September jobs package to crank up employment but is hamstrung by budget cuts and a tight debt ceiling.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the IMF, returned to IMF headquarters to say goodbye after US criminal charges against him were dropped.
A relative of President Barack Obama was arrested last week outside Boston on charges of drunk driving, an official said on Monday.
Pop star Lady Gaga picked up two awards and Katy Perry won three but Beyonce’s pregnancy announcement trumped all the award winners.
Hurricane Irene swept through Manhattan on Sunday but reserved the worst of its fury for towns and suburbs up and down the north-eastern US
Hurricane Irene closed in on New York on Saturday, shutting down the city, as millions of Americans on the East Coast hunkered down.
US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed on the need for "concerted action" to spur global growth.
The Federal Reserve on Friday dashed Wall Street’s hopes of an immediate boost to the flagging Unites States economy.
Rice’s second autobiography will take us "into secret negotiating rooms" where global peace hung in the balance, publishers say.
Hurricane Irene closed in on the US East Coast on Friday, lashing North Carolina with ferocious winds and triggering unprecedented evacuations.