Jennifer Peltz in New York hears from 9/11 volunteers, police officers, and bereaved who mourn the loss of national unity along with the dead.

ON the morning I was to be married for the second time, I found myself going to my knees in the shower and praying: that my ex-husband would find love again ...” 

The Newsweek Twitter feed was briefly hacked this morning, purportedly by a group associated with the Islamic State group.

Tommy Gilbert Jr has been arrested on suspicion of shooting Tommy Sr, a rich Wall St investor. How did such a gilded life corrode? asks Lynnley Browning

A land with two suns, extreme sports and crimson forests.

Ben Bradlee, the hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades, has died.

Nora Ephron had effortless style and her steeliness was as impressive as her slick observations. Marjorie Brennan is charmed by a collection of her impressive work.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage has been condemned by a leading charity after suggesting that migrants with HIV should be prevented from entering the UK.

FTC says the company has not done enough to stop kids making unauthorised purchases, writes Joe Kloc

Yellowbird’s legacy is a bright ray of light in the bleak Chinese political landscape, writes Melinda Liu.

Self-confessed Craigslist killer Miranda Barbour reveals all to Matthew Lysiak

A California engineer identified by Newsweek magazine as the creator of the digital currency, Bitcoin, “unconditionally” denied the report and has hired a lawyer to “clear his name”.

‘Newsweek’ says Satoshi Nakamoto is the creator of cyber currency bitcoin, but the cantankerous, obsessively private engineer has denied it. So is the magazine right, asks Dan Buckley

BACK around the mid-noughties, some social gatherings began to take on the air of a strange self-help group. “We did four last night,” somebody would confess.

WITH summer here, it’s fair to ask: is sunshine a public-health menace or a saviour?

IT TURNS OUT that many men, shockingly, don’t have very good judgement — at least around attractive women.

TURNS out the sexiest woman in the world and I have something in common.

At a press conference in late April, US president Barack Obama was asked to comment on the hunger strike unfolding among prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Arline Kercher must relive her daughter Meredith’s murder again as the Italian courts review the case after the acquittal of Amanda Knox was thrown out, writes Barbie Latza Nadeau

ON A MONDAY morning in March, 1970, Newsweek’s cover on ‘Women in Revolt’ hit the newsstands.

IN October, US first lady Michelle Obama said she wasn’t thinking about what she might do in the future.

IN the final scene of Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s heart-stopping thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Maya, a CIA operative and the movie’s heroine, is strapped into a seat on a military transport plane staring into the middle distance, looking depleted.

For centuries historians and treasure seekers have searched for the burial site of history’s most famous conqueror. New findings offer compelling evidence that it’s been found. Oliver Steed reports

If sportswriting was a sport itself, then America would dominate it something like it dominates basketball.

A year ago England was engulfed by riots but the UK government has done nothing to tackle the issues that sparked them, writes Siôn Simon

US presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s whining and flip-flopping is making him look like a wimp with something to prove, not a steady future leader of the Western world, writes Michael Tomasky

When two scholars claimed to have found undiscovered Caravaggio sketches, the art world took notice, but writes Barbie Latza Nadeau, many say the find is too good to be true

Spin the globe at the bottom of the screen and take a journey on the Rhaetian Railway through the Swiss Alps.

The Taliban has burned down scores of girls schools in recent years. It is now accused of mass poisonings but UN and Nato tests show no trace of poison and some suggest the symptoms are psychosomatic, writes Matthieu Aikins

Before Nancy Meyers, before Sofia Coppola, before Julie Delpy and Kasi Lemmons and Nicole Holofcener, there was Nora Ephron.

Forget underpants bombs. The new terror threat is far more serious. Daniel Klaidman And Christopher Dickey report on a more sophisticated attempt to evade security

The popular daytime TV host hawks his son’s diet books on his show. Inside the McGraws’ cosy clan. Pat Wingert and Aram Roston report

IT’S a rainy morning in Los Angeles, and Elisabeth Moss, who plays Peggy Olson in the television series Mad Men, is standing outside the stage door smoking.

DON’T do it, Maria!

US agents helped make Joaquin Guzman the most powerful drug lord in the world. Aram Roston reports

MDNA, the title of Madonna’s 12th studio album, caused fun on Twitter.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde is the new financial iron lady who is determined to ensure the EU and the US take action to resolve the economic crisis, writes Christopher Dickey

An FBI mole speaks for the first time about life in the seedy world of right-wing terror. Ross Schneiderman reports

THERE’S nothing like seeing the Muppets in real life, because you’re stunned.

Landfalls

ANOTHER woman has come forward to claim she had a secret nine-month affair with Dominique Strauss-Kahn that eventually drove her to attempt suicide.

The New York City hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault has appeared in public to thank her supporters.

The hotel maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sex assault has been wrongfully portrayed as a money grabbing opportunist in newspaper accounts of her recorded remarks to an incarcerated friend, her lawyer said after they reviewed the tapes during a nearly eight-hour meeting with prosecutors.

THE hotel maid who says former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan hotel room has broken her silence over the alleged attack.