Ground Zero

Michael Moore Fights Back Over Cuba "Sicko" Visit
Michael Moore skewers Bush in a new response to the government scrutiny of his recent trip to Cuba with ill Ground Zero workers.

Mail Still Being Sent to World Trade Center
Hundreds of pieces of mail addressed to former World Trade Center employees still arrive each day at a post office across the street from ground zero.

Ahmadinejad Request to Visit Ground Zero Gets Short Shrift
A request by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for an official tour of Ground Zero while he is at the United Nations next week met a collective response that was classically New Yorker: Fuhgeddaboutit!

JP Morgan to Build 40-storey Tower at Ground Zero
JP Morgan Chase is to invest $2bn (£1bn) in building a 40-storey tower on the edge of the World Trade Center site, a significant boost to efforts by the city and state of New York and the federal authorities to lure the financial industry back to lower Manhattan.

Ground Zero Falls Silent As Americans Recall Fateful Day Their World Collapsed
· New York acts as focus on 5th anniversary of attacks · Bush links Iraq war to September 11 in TV speech

Diary
May we begin by stating our wholehearted, nay unequivocal admiration for whoever chose the hymn for the wreath-laying at Ground Zero. By Jon Henley

Bush Marks 9/11 Anniversary
George Bush laid a wreath at Ground Zero last night as he began a two-day tour that will take him to all three sites of devastation on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Ground Zero Forensics Offer Some Hope of Closure
A line of white trucks can often be seen parked along the perimeter of Ground Zero, though it rarely attracts the attention of the tourists milling there. They are there to collect human fragments found at the site and take them to storage to await DNA testing.

Now Death Comes to the Men Who Cleaned Up Ground Zero
More than 40,000 people, mostly men, toiled to clear the terrible pile of building, aircraft and human debris from the smouldering rubble. Now those men are beginning to die prematurely from cancers and lung diseases.

A Meeting of Minds on New York Skyline
Foster and Rogers unveil contrasting but complementary designs for Ground Zero.

Ground Zero Rethink After Cost Soars to $1bn
A radical review of the proposed memorial at the site of the destroyed World Trade Centre was under way yesterday after it emerged that the current plans could cost $1bn (£540m) to complete.

Rebuilding Ground Zero
A hastily arranged ceremony marked the official start of rebuilding at Ground Zero yesterday morning after months of tense negotiations cast doubt over the project.

Row Threatens to Derail Ground Zero Project
· Doubts over finances for building Freedom Tower · Developer accused of betraying public trust.

Battle for Hearts in Bandit Country
Somalia could become the next 'war on terror' battleground as the US zeroes in on al-Qaida and Islamist groups reportedly trying to exploit a power vacuum in the world's most anarchic state. By World Briefing

Build Homes at Ground Zero Site, Says Mayor
New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has called for the Twin Towers to be replaced by schools and residential buildings rather than commercial property and said the lobbying of victims' families could scare away donors for a memorial.

Horse Racing: Motivator Camp Fear Ground Zero
Derby winner Motivator is "highly unlikely" to run in the Irish Champion Stakes because of firm ground, according to racing manager Harry Herbert.

Infighting Shackles Freedom Tower
New Yorkers are watching on with dismay as political wrangling stalls work on rebuilding Ground Zero, writes David Teather.

'Worst Pile of Crap Architecture I've Seen.'
Trump rubbishes Ground Zero design. If he was in charge of picking a replacement for the World Trade Centre in New York, Donald Trump would know what to say to the architect: "You're fired."

Shutter Control: Ground Zero
Is the Internet evolving into a liberating medium or an intrusive surveillance tool? We explore some scenarios here.

Ground Zero As a Benchmark
The readers' editor, Ian Mayes, on the controversial use of a heavily laden term. The Guardian's art critic, writing about the recent disastrous fire at an art warehouse in east London, said:

Tower of Strength
New York will wrap itself in the flag when the new tallest building in the world is officially unveiled at ground zero, writes David Teather.

Bush Digs in for Victory
Ground Zero is featuring heavily in the early stages of the Republican electoral campaign, eliciting strong reactions on all sides, writes Matthew Wells.

China Refuses to Face Growing Hiv Crisis
Jonathan Watts in Xiongqiao village, Henan province, the ground zero of an epidemic threatening millions. Chang Sun's wife is HIV positive. So is his mother. So is his aunt. So is his cousin and his cousin's wife. So is the woman next door and, probably, so is her husband. In fact, it is quite possible that almost every adult and many of the children in his small, remote village are infected.

Bank sues New York for Ground Zero skyscraper negligence
Deutsche Bank is suing New York State for $500m (£312m) for damage sustained to its skyscraper on the edge of the World Trade Centre site in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

At Ground Zero, normality starts to return
On the corner of Church and Liberty Street skirting the fence of the former World Trade Centre in New York, a small crowd had gathered earlier this week around two men. They were taking turns to read from a book made up of short biographies of every person that died in the terrorist attacks of September 11.

Architect and Developer Clash Over Ground Zero Memorial
The architect with the winning design to rebuild the World Trade Centre site is embroiled in an increasingly bitter dispute with the property developer who owns a lease on the site, as artistic vision clashes with the commercial demands of prime real estate. The architect, Daniel...

A New Dream Rises From Ground Zero
The successful architect could also rebuild his profession's image. The argument over what should be built on the mass-murder scene where the World Trade Centre once stood was, in essence, a fight between selling and telling.

Bogus Claims Flood in to 9/11 Fund
A $100m fund to pay for residents to clean up their flats after the attacks on the World Trade Centre has been targeted by fraudsters, according to officials. Some applicants to the federal programme lived several miles away from Ground Zero. Others simply wanted free air conditioners...

Ground Zero heroes agree rise after bitter two-year battle
As Britain's firefighters stayed out yesterday, their most celebrated American counterparts reluctantly concluded a long and bitter pay dispute that had led the men and women traditionally known as New York's Bravest to relabel themselves New York's Poorest.

Prayers at Bali's ground zero
They came with flowers, incense and tears. Small, sobbing knots of people - Indonesian and foreign - paying their respects for the first time at Bali's ground zero.

New York and Washington Fall Silent in Remembrance
Crowds today gathered around Ground Zero in New York City, the damaged Pentagon in Virginia, and a now hallowed field in Pennsylvania to mourn the 3,025 people from 91 countries killed in the terrorist attacks one year ago. At 8.46am New York time, the city's governor, Michael Bloomberg,...

Ground zero 'victim' turns up alive
A man believed to have been killed in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre has been found, confused but alive, in a New York psychiatric centre, according to his family.

The city that never changed
Everyone hoped New York would rise from the wreckage as a different, better place. But as squabbles over compensation and the rebuilding of Ground Zero continue, Ed Vulliamy finds that grief has been replaced by anger and cynicism.

September 11 - After the fall
Even as the dust was settling on Ground Zero, songs, movies and books were hastily being tweaked to take account of the attack. But what will the lasting effects of September 11 be on cinema, music, theatre and literature?

Remembering the past and looking to the future
Plans for the September 11 memorial day have met widespread approval, writes Oliver Burkeman, but plans to build Ground Zero are proving controversial.

Israeli 'restraint' Still Means Terror for the Palestinians
Curfews, shootings and house demolitions happen daily. It is hard to know which is more shocking: the mound of rubble in the centre of Jenin, which local residents call "ground zero", or the hole in Gaza city where an aircraft dropped a one-tonne bomb and flattened a house.

New York memorial day planned
Rudolph Giuliani will lead New York's commemorations on September 11 this year - beginning a roll-call at Ground Zero of every person who died in the terrorist attacks there - but schools and businesses will be open as usual to affirm the city's commitment to the future, civic leaders said yesterday.

Ground Zero Ideas Get Short Shrift in New York
New Yorkers urged local planners at the weekend not to reconstruct buildings on the footprints of the collapsed twin towers, which many regard as hallowed ground after thousands lost their lives. More than 4,000 people attended a "listening to the city" forum on Saturday to register their...

Some Call It the Friendly Frontier; Others See It As the Starting Point for the Third World War
Small Alaskan town prepares for missile site in wilderness. 'People say this is going to be Ground Zero now but I'd rather be at Ground Zero than 200 miles away and die of radiation," says Tom Van Eyck, looking up from beneath his leather, coin-ringed cowboy hat as he sits by his van in the midsummer sun selling wood carvings and walking sticks made out of diamond willow.

Ground Zero bank refuses clean-up
A skyscraper next to Ground Zero has still not been entered or searched because the bank which owns it will not let rescue workers inside.

New York remembers as last debris is removed from the World Trade Centre
"Closure" had been the word on everybody's lips. But when the time came to draw a line under the eight-and-a-half-month clean-up operation at Ground Zero yesterday, none of the civic dignitaries gathering in Manhattan's humid sunshine tried to pressure the city into moving on. No one said anything.

Relatives Attend Emotional Ground Zero Service
Hundreds of relatives of the victims of the World Trade Centre attack attended an emotional ceremony today to mark the end of the recovery operation at Ground Zero. The service, marking the end of the eight-and-a-half month cleanup after the September 11 attack, began with a fire...

Ground Zero operation winds down
With the last hillock of the mangled steel set to be removed from Ground Zero next week, New Yorkers are preparing to move on from the disaster that has dominated their lives for nearly nine months.

Sale of evidence condemned
The official report into the collapse of the twin towers is likely to heighten controversy over the decision by the New York authorities to auction most of the steel from ground zero for recycling.

Toxic Poisoning Fears at Ground Zero
Up to 750 firefighters working in the wreckage of the World Trade Centre in New York have taken sick leave with suspected toxic poisoning, according to reports in the US press today. Many buildings ruined or damaged in the September 11 attacks contained lead, polychlorinated biphenyls...

Aftershocks Near Ground Zero
Tribute to Warriors of an Odd Arena

General: You can't go home again
A short joust on the circus attraction in Gotham.....otherwise known as "Ground Zero".....and other sports shorts.