A British man who trained to be a shoe bomber said Osama bin Laden told him shortly after the September 11 2001 attacks that he believed a follow-up terrorist attack could doom the American economy.

A Pakistani parliamentary commission today demanded an end to American drone attacks inside the country and an apology for deadly US air strikes in November as part of proposed new terms in the country’s troubled relations with the United States.

Partial remains of several victims of the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States were incinerated by a military contractor and sent to a landfill site, a government report said.

A judge in New York has recommended terror group al Qaida be assessed $9.3bn for the damage done to properties and businesses in the September 11 2001 attacks.

A new TV documentary will reveal that a last-minute double-check of intelligence before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden cast fresh doubt on whether the al-Qaida leader was really in the Pakistani compound where he was found.

A Norwegian who dressed as a police officer to gun down summer campers killed at least 80 people at an island retreat, police said today.

Norwegian bomb disposal teams were searching for unexploded devices today on the island where an attacker opened fire, killing around 10 people attending a youth camp.

US president Barack Obama has hailed the beginning of the end of a devastating war, announcing he was bringing home 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by next summer.

The US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan said the September 11 2001 attacks “wouldn’t have happened” if Americans had been forewarned to be on the lookout for terrorism.

The Guantanamo tribunal system was preparing today for its first trial under President Barack Obama.

A former member of Guyana's parliament and another man were convicted of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F Kennedy International Airport in a plan authorities said was intended to dwarf the September 11 2001 attacks.

A jury of US military officers at Guantanamo’s second war-crimes trial reached a verdict that could put Osama bin Laden’s alleged “media secretary” and videomaker in prison for life.

The judge in the first American war crimes trial since the Second World War barred evidence obtained by interrogators from Osama bin Laden’s driver, ruling he was subjected to “highly coercive” conditions in Afghanistan.

Lawyers for five 9/11 suspects accused the US government of rushing their cases at Guantanamo in order to influence the US presidential elections.

A Spanish court will reveal verdicts today on 28 people accused of the Madrid train bombings. The case is Europe’s biggest Islamic terror trial.

The US military death toll in Iraq has reached 2,974, one more than the number of deaths in the September 11 2001 attacks, it is reported today.

US president George Bush finally acknowledged that the CIA ran secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the US and its allies, including Britain.

The Bank of England named and froze the assets of 19 of the 24 air terror suspects today.

President George Bush is starting his sixth year in office with a flurry of activity designed to trumpet upturns in the economy, defend US action in Iraq and challenge critics who claim his methods of fighting terrorists infringe on civil liberties.

Director Oliver Stone has begun shooting one of the first Hollywood films about the September 11 2001 attacks in New York – without recreating the large-scale devastation all too familiar to people who lived through the outrage.

For the first time since the September 11 2001 attacks, a terror suspect held nearly incommunicado at a US prison in Cuba got his chance to convince his jailers that he should go free.

An American, who admits being part an alleged plot to blow up London pubs, rail stations and restaurants, faces 30 years to life in prison under an agreement with federal prosecutors in New York.

The Pentagon’s number two official has backed down after saying that key lieutenants of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden were plotting with Saddam Hussein loyalists to kill Americans in Iraq.

An Islamic militant was today sentenced to be executed by firing squad after judges found him guilty of being the “intellectual mastermind” behind last year’s deadly nightclub bombings on the island of Bali.

A British man arrested by the FBI over an alleged plot to smuggle a surface-to-air missile into the US is said to have praised Osama bin Laden.