9/11
# 911 - Friday 10 May, 2013
In pics: Final piece of spire added to One World Trade Centre
Its total height is now 541 metres, or 1,776 feet – a symbolic height chosen to echo the year 1776, when America declared independence from Britain.
# 911 - Monday 29 April, 2013
NYPD confirms piece of wreckage comes from hijacked 9/11 plane
The twisted piece of wreckage, believed to be part of a wing flap, was discovered in a narrow space between two buildings.
# 911 - Saturday 27 April, 2013
12 years later, large piece of 9/11 airplane found in New York
Authorities said it will not be removed until the area has been thoroughly examined.
# 911 - Friday 8 March, 2013
Bin Laden son in law pleads not guilty to terror
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, allegedly a senior propagandist in the Al-Qaeda network, is accused of conspiring “to kill nationals of the United States.”
# 911 - Thursday 7 March, 2013
Bin Laden son-in-law captured, faces terror charges in New York
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith is expected to be in US federal court in New York tomorrow in an initial hearing to face terror charges.
# 911 - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Poll: Do you think flight restrictions should be relaxed?
From next month, pocket knives with blades of up to six centimetres are to be allowed on flights in the US.
# 911 - Friday 22 February, 2013
# 911 - Sunday 10 February, 2013
11 cover versions that prove the 1990s ruined music
It wasn’t all dance tunes and Oasis cassettes you know.
# 911 - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
“No evidence of rendition” in garda investigations
The Department of Justice was responding to a report published today claiming Ireland facilitated the CIA’s rendition programme.
# 911 - Thursday 31 January, 2013
Guantanamo judge orders US to stop censoring 9/11 hearings
Judge James Pohl says the government cannot remotely censor pre-trial hearings for the suspects of the 9/11 attacks.
# 911 - Sunday 30 December, 2012
Woman charged with hate crime after man pushed in front of NY subway train
The woman told police that she pushed the man in front of the train because she hated Muslims and Hindus.
The 9 at 9: Sunday
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
# 911 - Sunday 4 November, 2012
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
# 911 - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
Obama praises 9/11 unity on a low-key 11th anniversary
Relatives gathered as they do every year at the site of the World Trade Center attacks as the US president made a low-key appearance at the Pentagon which was also attacked.
‘Important step’ as WTC health programme adds 50 types of cancer
They were added to a list of World Trade Center attack-related illnesses covered by a health coverage programme. Today marks the 11th anniversary of the attacks.
The 9 at 9: Tuesday
Good morning! Here are 9 things to know as you start your day…
On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, agreement finally reached on memorial museum
Politicians have been instructed not to take part in the commemoration at Ground Zero in New York City later today.
# 911 - Friday 3 August, 2012
Barack Obama message, signature hoisted to top of One World Trade Center
In photos: steel beam signed by the Obamas and police and construction workers at the WTC site has been lifted onto the 104th floor of the new skyscraper.
# 911 - Saturday 5 May, 2012
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed appears on 2,976 murder charges over 9/11
Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators appeared in public for the first time in more than three years today.
# 911 - Friday 4 May, 2012
9/11 suspects set for Guantanamo trial
Five men are accused of orchestrating the attacks which killed almost 3,000 people on 11 September, 2001.
# 911 - Thursday 3 May, 2012
British military carry out security tests ahead of Olympics
The training includes the deployment of one weapon it hopes it never has to use
# 911 - Wednesday 2 May, 2012
On Afghan trip, Obama says US is on a path to ‘destroying Al Qaeda’
The US president was speaking on the day he signed an agreement for the period after US forces withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014.
# 911 - Monday 30 April, 2012
World Trade Center is now New York’s tallest building again
The new tower is reclaiming the title held by its predecessors destroyed on 9/11 – check out this time-lapse video of its eight-year construction…
# 911 - Tuesday 10 April, 2012
“The pilot is on my patio” – 911 tapes from Virginia jet crash released
The newly-released calls to emergency services reveal what local residents saw when the F-18 jet crashed into a retirement complex during a training flight on Friday.
# 911 - Thursday 5 April, 2012
The 9 at 9: Thursday
Nine things to know this morning…
Accused 9/11 mastermind to face trial over attacks
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could face the death penalty along with four others if convicted.
# 911 - Thursday 1 March, 2012
US man drinks petrol from jar, lights cigarette, dies
Probably not the smartest move ever.
# 911 - Tuesday 28 February, 2012
Some 9/11 victims’ remains went to landfill – Pentagon report
A report by the Pentagon has found that “several portions of remains” of people who died in the terrorist attacks were put in a landfill.
# 911 - Tuesday 7 February, 2012
The 5 at 5: Tuesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
Cancer rates ‘triple among NYPD officers’ after 9/11
New statistics show that the number of police officers applying for cancer-related disability pensions following the 9/11 terrorist attacks has tripled.
# 911 - Friday 20 January, 2012
Mark Wahlberg apologises for saying he could have prevented 9/11 hijackings
Wahlberg had suggested he could have single-handedly prevented the tragedy if he had been on one of the planes.
# 911 - Friday 16 December, 2011
Christopher Hitchens, author and polemicist, dead at 62
Weakened by cancer, Hitchens continued to write for Vanity Fair in his final days, questioning the saying that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
# 911 - Thursday 17 November, 2011
Osama bin Laden was ‘tender, gentle family man’, says successor
Ayman al-Zawahiri said he wanted to “show the human side” of the man responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
# 911 - Thursday 22 September, 2011
US, Ireland walk out as Iran delivers UN speech
US delegates leave chambers after President Ahmadinejad refers to 9/11 attacks as a “mystery”.
# 911 - Sunday 18 September, 2011
Tánaiste to address the United Nations General Assembly
The UNGA meets for the 66th this week with the issue of Palestinian statehood among the topics to be discussed.
# 911 - Wednesday 14 September, 2011
Liverpool striker displays bad grammar, unpopular 9/11 views on Twitter
Liverpool striker Nathan Eccleston is in trouble with the club after comments he made on Twitter about September 11th.
Osama Bin Laden sends message from beyond the grave
Al-Qaeda has issued a video to mark the anniversary of 9/11 in which new leader Ayman al-Zawahri applauds the Arab Spring uprising. It also contains previously unreleased messages from Bin Laden.
# 911 - Tuesday 13 September, 2011
Victim’s name spelled incorrectly on 9/11 memorial
The family of Jeffrey Schreier, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Centre ten years ago, were stunned to see the misspelling.
# 911 - Monday 12 September, 2011
Fighter jets escort US passenger flights after alarm raised over bathroom use
Airline officials said that two passengers on board an American Airlines flight from LA spent an “extraordinarily long time” in the plane’s bathroom.
# 911 - Sunday 11 September, 2011
The Daily Fix: Sunday
In tonight’s Fix: 9/11 remembered on emotional day in New York and elsewhere; the latest on David Norris’ possible Áras race re-entry; and why India’s sexiest woman is coming to Dublin…
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