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.

AFP - The US government has lost track of the cost of the "war on terror" unleashed after the September 11 attacks and which is now taking up tens of billions of dollars a year in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Congress watchdog warned.

AFP - The US government has lost track of the cost of the "war on terror" unleashed after the September 11 attacks and which is now taking up tens of billions of dollars a year in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Congress watchdog warned.

AFP - Pakistan has welcomed a move by Britain to ban a tribal rebel group waging an insurgency in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan.

AFP - The government has moved to ban two Islamist militant groups based in the country, the first to be proscribed under new laws prohibiting the glorification of terrorism.

Reuters - Prosecutors are to announce on Monday whether British police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an innocent Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber will face criminal charges.

AP - Scores of people rallied at ground zero Saturday to remember the fallen, and call for a more thorough search for the bone fragments still being found at the World Trade Center site.

AFP - The family of a Brazilian man who was shot dead by British police in the mistaken belief he was a suicide bomber reiterated their calls for officers involved in the shooting to be prosecuted.

AP - A post-Sept. 11 loan program was a disaster in the making because the government could not verify that most loans actually went to businesses affected by the attacks, a federal official told Congress on Thursday.

AFP - Three British police officers may face manslaughter charges over the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent Brazilian man shot dead by police in London last year.

AP - Those who lost husbands, wives and significant others in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will recite their loved ones' names at the five-year anniversary ceremony.

Reuters - A top European court on Wednesday threw out challenges by two terror suspects to freezes on their assets imposed in a global clampdown on people linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban after the September 11, 2001 attacks.