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.

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.

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.

AFP - A massive bas-relief sculpture depicting firemen responding to the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center will be unveiled across the road from Ground Zero on Saturday.

AFP - A massive bas-relief sculpture depicting firemen responding to the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center will be unveiled across the road from Ground Zero on Saturday.

AP - A member of the Sept. 11 commission on Friday lashed out at conservative pundit Ann Coulter for a "hate-filled attack" in saying the widows whose husbands died in the World Trade Center used the deaths for their own political gain.

AP - One tower at the World Trade Center is on fire and the other has just been hit. Dozens of firefighters approach the burning buildings with shovels and their largest trucks. One takes off his helmet and sits down to rest, burying his face in his hand.

Reuters - Their training for war started on June 28, 2002, when they entered the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. They would go on to become the class of 2006, the first to join after the September 11 attacks.