Twin Towers

A Child and His Grief, One Among Thousands
Aidan Fontana - the only child of one of 343 fire fighters who died trying to save others when the twin towers collapsed on September 11 - is an unwilling member of a macabre club: the almost 3,000 boys and girls who lost a parent that day.

The 9-11 Report -Deception
The real reason for 9-11 is both disturbing and very frightening...

Brotherhood Forged in the Carnage of the Twin Towers
On the anniversary of 9/11 a hero and the man he saved talk about their bond. David Smith reports.

Freedom Tower Redesign
The architects behind the Freedom Tower - the replacement for the twin towers destroyed in the September 11 attacks - have been sent back to the drawing board yet again.

Memory of Twin Towers Wins New Arts Prize
A handful of dust, gathered from the streets of New York in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, last night won the first £40,000 Artes Mundi prize for the Chinese artist Xu Bing. Mr Xu, who was born in China in 1959, left the country after the Tiananmen Square massacre. He now...

9/11 Memorial Chosen
A design consisting of two pools of water in the footprints of the destroyed twin towers at the World Trade Centre in New York has been chosen as the memorial to the thousands who died in the terrorist attacks of September 11 two years ago. The design, by the New York-based Israeli...

We Must Prepare for the Worst
Twin Towers plans should not disguise an uncomfortable truth. The debate over the memorial to those who died in the Twin Towers attack of September 11 2001 expresses in a concentrated way the perplexities and contradictions that the event brought in its train.

Last Voices From the Twin Towers
Transcript release divides victims' families. 'It's a big plane or a little plane?" a woman asks a young man who has just picked up the phone at a police desk on the ground floor of the World Trade Centre shortly after the first attack.

Sharon is Now a Danger to Us Troops and Hopes in Iraq
Lack of progress in the Holy Land will feed the growth of terrorism. The crisis of American power that has been building since the Twin Towers attacks is close to a point of no return.

Twin Towers 'never Had Fire Safety Checks'
An inquiry into the collapse of the twin towers on September 11 has found that vital tests to determine how the structures would cope with a major fire were never carried out. US investigators have been unable to find evidence that tests were ever conducted on fireproofing material in the...

Secrets, Lies and Videotapes
We should be mocking al-Qaida for its mistakes, not fearing it. It's a long, long way from the desolation of the twin towers to the backstreets of Paris 60 years ago; from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to Noor Inayat Khan, a slip of an Indian girl operating her radio for Britain behind Nazi lines. The connection is there, though; irresistibly so.

Architect born for challenge of reinventing twin towers
"A hundred times have I thought New York a catastrophe ... a beautiful catastrophe." Those were the words of the great architect Le Corbusier, awestruck by the Manhattan skyline long before the World Trade Centre's twin towers soared 411 metres (1,350ft) above Wall Street.

Seats at New Wembley Will Cost Up to £6,000 Per Year
Demolition work on the famous twin towers, the most recognisable feature of Wembley stadium, started yesterday but the new venue that will take its place is set to be the most expensive sports arena in the world with seats costing up to £6,000 per year and executive boxes up to £200,000...

Peter Beaumont: The New Romantics of Death
After the Twin Towers, Bali and yesterday's slaughter, it is clear that modern terrorism has a different face. The last 13 months will go down in history as the Year of Terror. Hijacked planes have fallen from the skies above the United States.

Mood of mourning mixed with resentment
In the tensest part of the Middle East yesterday mourning for the attacks on the twin towers in New York was mixed with strong resentment over perceived American hypocrisy.

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...

Deep impact
A delayed taxi ride saved Ian Thorpe from being in the twin towers on 11 September. The phenomenon of the pool tells Tim Adams how that day in New York has changed him - and why he can still manage 4am starts for training.

BBC to Show Controversial Terror Film
The decision to screen a documentary shot in the Twin Towers during the 11 September atrocities has been attacked by the victims' families.

John Berger: The first fireball
The US nuclear attack on Hiroshima paved the way for September 11 and its aftermath. Now that the number of innocent civilian victims killed collaterally in Afghanistan by the US bombardments is equal to the number killed in the attack on the Twin Towers, we can perhaps place the events in a larger, but not less tragic perspective, and face a new question:

New York Ponders a Fitting Memorial
The process of deciding what to build on the site of the twin towers is likely to be protracted as commercial interests vie with the need to leave a permanent memorial, writes David Teather.

Protracted Search for Positive Projects
The process of deciding how to replace the twin towers is likely to be protracted as commercial interests vie with the need to leave a permanent memorial, writes David Teather.

How the twin towers could have survived
Leaked report shows World Trade Centre withstood fireballs but toppled after sprinklers and hoses failed to quell blaze.

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.

Getting back to normal and doing the things that you enjoy
It's been two weeks since the "Twin Towers" went down and the president would like us to try to get back to "normal". But how can we? I took a step towards normalacy and did something that I love. I went to a sporting event in one of my favorite cities -- Las Vegas.