Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass in New York’s Yankee Stadium, telling his American flock to use its freedoms wisely as he ended his first papal trip to the US.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the US Treasury Department for taking ailing September 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary Sicko, The Associated Press has learned.

New DNA testing has identified human remains recovered years ago from the World Trade Center wreckage to be those of a flight attendant and passenger from American Airlines Flight 11, the first hijacked plane to crash into a tower on September 11, 2001.

AMERICA grieved the victims of September 11 yesterday as the families of the dead recited their loved ones' names and messages of remembrance to a weeping crowd at the site where the World Trade Center once stood.

The last of the 343 New York firefighters who perished in the wake of the September 11 terrorist strikes was finally laid to rest today.

THE September 11 terror attacks cost New York up to €100 billion in lost buildings, revenues and workers’ lives, a report said yesterday.

The architect who designed the Vietnam Memorial in Washington has been involved in talks about the Ground Zero tribute, it was reported today.

An Irish victim of the World Trade Centre attack is to be buried in his native Co Sligo.

The last standing piece of the World Trade Centre towers has been torn down and saved for possible use in a memorial.