AFP - Two men accused of being part of a terrorist cell discussed a suicide mission involving a British Airways plane, a London court has heard.

AFP - The family of an innocent Brazilian man shot dead by police in London last year have called for a swift decision to be made about whether to prosecute any of the officers involved.

AFP - The family of an innocent Brazilian man shot dead by police in London last year have called for a swift decision to be made about whether to prosecute any of the officers involved.

AP - New Orleans is still woefully unprepared for catastrophes 10 months after Hurricane Katrina, and the two cities attacked on 9/11 don't meet all guidelines for responding to major disasters, a federal security analysis concluded Friday.

AP - A disaster relief company that took supplies that were supposed to go to Sept. 11 rescuers at the World Trade Center escaped punishment after the government discovered its own employees had stolen artifacts from ground zero, once-secret federal documents show.

AFP - US Vice President Dick Cheney said that the war in Iraq was "in part responsible" for the absence of terrorist attacks in the United States since the September 11, 2001 strikes.

AP - Federal regulators have cleared the way for crews to resume searching for human remains on the roof of a skyscraper being torn down near the World Trade Center site, officials said Thursday.

AP - Friends and relatives of Sept. 11 victims joined Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Thursday for the groundbreaking on a memorial to the 184 people killed in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon.

AFP - Family members and officials gathered for the unveiling of a limestone marker at the site of a memorial for the 184 people killed in the September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon.

Reuters - Four years and nine months after a hijacked airliner slammed into the Pentagon on September 11, work began on Thursday on a memorial near the crash site to honor the victims of the attack, due to be completed in 2008.

AFP - A federal judge has ruled that US authorities can detain illegal immigrants for several months without giving a reason.

AFP - A 21-year-old man arrested at Manchester airport nearly 10 days ago appeared in court charged with two offences under the Terrorism Act.

AFP - A 21-year-old man arrested at Manchester airport nearly 10 days ago appeared in court charged with two offences under the Terrorism Act.

AP - A state agency on Wednesday approved using $1.6 billion in tax-exempt bonds to build three office towers at the World Trade Center site.

Reuters - A British man shot by police seeking a possible chemical bomb in a London home, and later released without charge, said on Tuesday the officer gave no warning before pulling the trigger.

AFP - Japanese share prices have posted their biggest fall since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, plunging more than four percent on concerns over the US economy and a scandal touching the central bank chief, dealers said.

Reuters - A Saudi militant killed in 2004 was due to have been the 20th suicide plane hijacker in the September 11, 2001 attacks, al Qaeda's media arm said in a statement on the Internet on Tuesday.

AP - Construction crews set off test explosions Monday at the site for the Freedom Tower, producing muffled blasts where the World Trade Center once stood.

AP - When a jury chose a Sept. 11 memorial design from more than 5,000 entries, the panel praised it for the "powerful, yet simple" use of reflecting pools to represent the destroyed World Trade Center. More than two years later, nothing is simple about the memorial, called "Reflecting Absence," which was sent back for a redesign after contractors concluded that it could cost nearly $1 billion.

Reuters - A senior U.S. official rowed back on Monday from remarks by colleagues that Guantanamo Bay prisoners' suicides were an act of war and a "good PR move," after the comments were condemned abroad.