A sombre US honours the victims of 9/11 with ceremonies at the World Trade Center site in New York and the Pentagon, 10 years after the attacks.

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Austin Vukosa, one of some 3,000 children under 18 who lost a parent in the attacks, became a hyperambitious, self-reliant teenager.

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The 9/11 Decade: The 9/11 Decade: After a Father’s Death, Growing Up in a Hurry

In the years between the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and today, there have been many attempts to make art in response to the tragedy. The resulting works have been sentimental, overblown, angry, poetic, polemic, maudlin, mysterious, clumsy, subtle and beautiful. All of those qualities are on display at the Edison Place Gallery , where a showcase of work by 39 artists is marking this weekend’s anniversary. Part of the multi-site 9/11 Arts Project, “Ten Years After 9/11” is, unsurprisingly, an uneven show. It is also, at times, kind of wonderful. Read full article > >

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Art review: ‘Ten Years After 9/11’ displays 39 artists’ reaction to attacks

In the years between the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and today, there have been many attempts to make art in response to the tragedy. The resulting works have been sentimental, overblown, angry, poetic, polemic, maudlin, mysterious, clumsy, subtle and beautiful. All of those qualities are on display at the Edison Place Gallery , where a showcase of work by 39 artists is marking this weekend’s anniversary. Part of the multi-site 9/11 Arts Project, “Ten Years After 9/11” is, unsurprisingly, an uneven show. It is also, at times, kind of wonderful. Read full article > >

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Police have issued an arrest warrant for a man who they said is a suspect in a bizarre series of attacks in which young women were slashed in the buttocks at busy Fairfax County shopping malls. Fairfax police are looking for 40-year-old Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel, who they believe may have left the area. Police said he might be driving a blue 2003 Honda Civic with the Virginia tag KLX2689. Pimentel so far is being sought in one of the attacks, but police previously have said they think the same man has cut nine women in their teens and early 20s since February. Read full article > >

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Ten years after the attacks of 11 September 2001, seven people reflect on the momentous events that changed their lives.

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9/11: Stories from the embers

Before the last drops of rain from Hurricane Irene had dried, the attacks began on meteorologists for not accurately forecasting the exact strength of this weather system.

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Opinion: Don’t mock the weatherguy

As the 10 year anniversary of the attacks in the US on 11 September approaches, the subject has featured in a number of pieces at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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VIDEO: How Edinburgh Festival covered 9/11

JERUSALEM — Militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets into Israel and Israeli aircraft carried out deadly strikes across the coastal territory Friday in a surge of cross-border violence a day after attackers killed eight people near Israel’s frontier with Egypt . The multiple attacks Thursday north of the Red Sea resort of Eilat were the deadliest such incident in Israel in three years and threatened to ignite a new round of hostilities across the Israel-Gaza border after months of relative calm. The killings of an Egyptian military officer and two policemen in border skirmishes after the attacks have also enraged Egyptians, putting strain on the decades-long relationship between Egypt and Israel. Read full article > >

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What’s the consensus on Monday’s Republican presidential debate? Mitt Romney established himself as the frontrunner; Michele Bachmann emerged as his most serious challenger; and Tim Pawlenty floundered, especially after he backed away from his attacks…

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Syria’s state news agency said that residents were “pleading” for the army to intervene after the attacks, which could not be verified.

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Syria, Claiming Heavy Toll in Town, Hints at Retaliation

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron said that military operations in Libya will continue until Moammar Gaddafi stops his attacks against civilians and surrenders power. (May 25) Read full article > >

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CHICAGO — An officer in Pakistan’s intelligence service chose a Jewish center as a target for the 2008 Mumbai attacks and then helped launch a new plot against Denmark, the star witness in a terrorism trial in Chicago said Tuesday. In his second day of testimony, David Coleman Headley , a confessed Pakistani American terrorist, revealed more details about close ties between Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) and Lashkar-i-Taiba, the group accused of carrying out the attacks that killed 166 people , including six Americans. Read full article > >

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Libya on Saturday accused NATO of causing a humanitarian crisis after airstrikes targeted the government-controlled port in Tripoli, saying the attacks have limited movement of supply ships in and out of the country.

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Shortly before his death, Osama bin Laden purportedly recorded a message praising the Middle East protest movements and predicting that revolutions would spread across the region as the Pakistani Taliban vow to step up their attacks. (May 19) Read full article > >

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