AP - Sweeping reforms to the nation's intelligence system after the 9/11 attacks have done little to improve information-sharing or generate a greater sense of urgency among U.S. intelligence agencies, a House report concluded Thursday.

AP - Sweeping reforms to the nation's intelligence system after the 9/11 attacks have done little to improve information-sharing or generate a greater sense of urgency among U.S. intelligence agencies, a House report concluded Thursday.

Reuters - U.S. intelligence has a poor understanding of threats against the United States, nearly five years after the September 11 attacks prompted the U.S. war on terrorism, according to a report released on Thursday.

Reuters - Oliver Stone, director of controversial films like "Platoon" and "JFK," hopes his movie about the September 11 attacks will prove therapeutic rather than incendiary.

AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appealed to Congress Wednesday to press the war in Iraq with money and troops, portraying his country as crucial to the U.S. as a front line in the war on terror and comparing violence there to the Sept. 11 attacks.

AFP - Funk rock legend Prince and his second wife, Manuela Testolini, have reportedly filed for divorce.

AP - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appealed to Congress Wednesday to press the war in Iraq with money and troops, portraying his country as crucial to the U.S. as a front line in the war on terror and comparing violence there to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Reuters - Immigration activists clashed at the site of the World Trade Center on Wednesday when an anti-illegal immigration group called for secure borders to avoid a repeat of the September 11 attacks and counterprotesters yelled "racists go home."

AP - The agency created to oversee rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and downtown Manhattan after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will go out of business this fall, its chairman said Tuesday.

AFP - US pop queen Madonna will perform in Russia for the first time on September 11 and 12 as part of her Confessions world tour, a Russian organiser said.

Reuters - The director of a new documentary on September 11 fears that two upcoming Hollywood dramatizations of the World Trade Center attacks may eclipse her project.

Reuters - The director of a new documentary on September 11 fears that two upcoming Hollywood dramatizations of the World Trade Center attacks may eclipse her project.

AP - For months, it was as a resilient symbol of what the terrorists could not bring down: nine stories of the World Trade Center's north tower facade stood in the rubble while workers recovered bodies and cleared the site of the towers' ruins.

AP - Police said Wednesday that e-mails purportedly from Islamic militants claiming responsibility for the bombings of Bombay's train system were a hoax. Angry Internet users and software executives, meanwhile, pressured India's government to reopen access to Web sites blocked after the bombings.