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/ 12 September 2011
On the anniversary of 9/11, crews on two US flights were so unnerved by long bathroom visits that fighter jets were scrambled to shadow the flights
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/ 12 September 2011
The day began exactly as it did on that fateful date 10 years ago: under a crystal-clear sky that heightened the colours of the city.
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/ 11 September 2011
Ireland laboured to a error-strewn 22-10 victory over an emotional and fiercly committed United States at a wet Stadium Taranaki on Sunday.
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/ 11 September 2011
Americans on Sunday remembered the horror of September 11 2001, and the nearly 3 000 people who died in the hijacked plane attacks.
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/ 10 September 2011
Egypt declared a state of high alert on Saturday as police clashed with protesters who raided a building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo.
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/ 9 September 2011
New York police were out in force on Friday in response to intelligence about a car bomb plot linked to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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/ 9 September 2011
The US Federal Reserve chairperson Ben Bernanke has said the US central bank would spare no effort to boost weak growth.
A massive blackout caused by "human failure" left nearly five million people without power in parts of California, Arizona and Mexico on Thursday.
Barack Obama’s jobs package could lift US economic growth by one to three percentage points in 2012, add well over one million jobs, say analysts.
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/ 8 September 2011
Elizabeth Turner talks about how she is raising her son, born two months after her husband was killed in the World Trade Centre.
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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.