AFP - Osama bin Laden said he masterminded the September 11 attacks and convicted Frenchman Zacarias Moussaoui had no part in them, according to an audio recording.

AFP - US intelligence has no reason to doubt the authenticity of an audio tape attributed to Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in which he says he assigned the roles of the September 11, 2001 hijackers, a US official said.

AFP - A skyscraper rebuilt from scratch after being badly damaged in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks here opened its doors for business to the sounds of rock singer Lou Reed, who took the opportunity to air a few political jibes.

AP - The first destroyed skyscraper to be rebuilt since Sept. 11 opened Tuesday but attracted few tenants, despite offering state-of-the-art safety features that developers say will be part of all office towers to rise at the World Trade Center site.

AP - Osama bin Laden purportedly said in an audio tape Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui — the only person convicted in the U.S. for the Sept. 11 attacks — had nothing to do with the operation.

Reuters - Osama bin Laden said Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in a U.S. court for the September 11 attacks, had nothing to do with the operations, according to a Web site audiotape released on Tuesday.

Reuters - The first skyscraper rebuilt after being destroyed in the September 11 attacks opened on Tuesday with fanfare and a pledge from its developer it would be a model for completing the entire World Trade Center complex by 2012.

AP - Osama bin Laden said Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in the U.S. for the Sept. 11 attacks, had nothing to do with the operation, according to an audiotape released on the Internet Tuesday.

AFP - In the wake of the dramatic September 11 attacks on the US, many pondered how long it would take Hollywood to transform the tragic events to film.

AP - If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force.

AP - Fewer than 15,000 of the millions of New Yorkers who filed tax returns this year checked off a box to make a donation to the World Trade Center Memorial fund, state officials said.

AP - A federal judge on Friday reaffirmed her ruling that gives some families of Sept. 11 victims access to evidence in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial as part of two civil lawsuits that have been filed.

AFP - Trailers are to be shown in US theaters from Friday for Oliver Stone's new movie "World Trade Center" which deals with the September 11 attacks and producers are nervous about the potential reaction.

AFP - Under a barrage of questions, General Michael Hayden defended secret eavesdropping on Americans' telephone calls in an intense Senate hearing on his nomination as CIA director.

AFP - General Michael Hayden has pledged to apply lessons of past intelligence failures in Iraq and over the September 11 attacks if confirmed to lead a revamped CIA.