The resurrected World Trade Center has opened for business again, 13 years after the 9/11 terror attack — marking an emotional milestone for New Yorkers.

The resurrected World Trade Centre has opened for business again, 13 years after the 9/11 terror attack – marking an emotional milestone for New Yorkers.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie yesterday apologised to his constituents and said he was “embarrassed and humiliated” by his staff but had no idea his aides may have closed highway lanes to exact political retribution.

Elusive British street artist Banksy, nearing the end of a month-long New York City residency, has launched a scathing attack on the new World Trade Center, calling it “a betrayal”, a “non-event”, and a design that “clearly proclaims the terrorists have won”.

Officials are hoping to reopen both runways at New York’s LaGuardia Airport after a plane’s landing gear collapsed, sending it skidding along the tarmac and causing operations to be suspended.

Superstorm Sandy has revealed a skeleton which may date back to Colonial times, police in New Haven, Connecticut, said today.

An agreement that paves the way for the completion of the September 11 museum at ground zero was reached on the eve of the 11th anniversary of the terror attacks.

A US teenager heading to a Sweet 16 party was killed after he stuck his head out of the emergency hatch of a double-decker bus and hit the underside of a highway overpass in New Jersey, police said.

US counterterrorism officials are chasing a credible but unconfirmed al-Qaida threat to use a car bomb on bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington.

Flights at a US airport were delayed after 150 turtles crawled onto a runway.

US taxi drivers are once again picking up passengers at Newark Liberty International Airport after staging a five-hour shutdown to protest against the arrest of a fellow cabbie.

THE head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is facing at least one more allegation of sexual assault — this time by a fellow French native who described him as a “rutting chimpanzee”.

IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn was remanded in custody today accused of a sex attack on a US hotel maid.

The head of the International Monetary Fund was today waiting to be brought before a US court accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

The New York court appearance for the International Money Fund chief accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid has been delayed, his lawyer said today.

The leader of the International Monetary Fund, a possible candidate for president of France, was pulled off a plane in New York moments before it was to depart for Paris and arrested over sex attack allegations involving a hotel maid.

The leader of the International Monetary Fund tipped as a candidate for the French presidency was taken off a plane moments before take-off last night and questioned by police over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid.

New York’s airports struggled today to clear a huge backlog of flights that stranded thousands of passengers across the United States.

The flight attendant who had a meltdown over a fight with an agitated traveller has appeared in court.

Structural steel for the 1,776ft tower that will be known as 1 World Trade Centre has risen 200 feet above street level in a tangible sign of ground zero progress since the September 11 2001 terror attacks.

US police said a man of Haitian descent who left the island nation after the devastating earthquake caused a security breach at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport by opening a restricted door.

US senators criticised authorities regarding an airport security breach at the weekend as a video of the incident emerged showing a guard standing nearby as a man followed a woman into the terminal.

An activist group has begun posting 573,000 pager messages purportedly sent on September 11 2001.

TWO minutes after he cleared a private plane for takeoff and a fateful flight over the Hudson River, an air traffic controller at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport was on the phone with a woman in the airport operations office, joking about barbecuing a dead cat.

An air traffic controller was joking on the phone about barbecuing a dead cat moments before a light aircraft collided with a tour helicopter over the Hudson River, it has been revealed.

The central terminal at New York’s LaGuardia Airport was evacuated today after a man entered the building with a fake bomb in a bag, police said.

The head of the foundation building the September 11 memorial in New York told supporters it is “essential” to open the memorial by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, disputing a report that the project could not be finished on time.

The rebuilding of the World Trade Centre site is over-budget and years behind schedule -including the September 11 memorial that was once expected to open on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

A staircase at the World Trade Centre that proved a lifeline for countless September 11 escapers and survived the devastation will be moved from the site his weekend.

Lightning struck a London-bound flight shortly after take-off, forcing it to return to Newark Liberty International Airport, the US airport’s operator said.

The World Trade Centre site will be transformed into the “most dynamic state-of-the-art business district anywhere on Earth” as New York City rises from the ashes of September 11, architects and city officials said.

Relatives of World Trade Centre victims upset by plans to move this year’s September 11 commemoration away from ground zero have agreed a deal with New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg, allowing them to mourn at the site where their loved ones perished.

International flights were delayed and thousands of US commuters were unable to get to work today as torrential rain flooded New York’s subways and rail lines.

A group of family members of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, outraged by city plans to move the commemoration ceremony, filed a request today asking to hold the annual event at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center.

A flight from Los Angeles to London was diverted to New York today because of what officials said may have been unfounded fears of a security breach.

A foiled plot to blow up a jet fuel pipeline under John F Kennedy International Airport drew attention to what counter-terrorism experts have warned could be a key target.

One of the United States’ largest banks has threatened to leave New York City if it does not receive bigger tax breaks to develop an office tower at Ground Zero, government officials said.

Thousands of weary travellers spent a third day waiting to reach their destinations after an ice and snow storm brought airports to a standstill.

Parts of New York’s World Trade Centre site will be searched again for remains of the September 11 dead after several bones were pulled out of an abandoned manhole this week.

Officials rebuilding the World Trade Centre site today defended their progress to state politicians who asked why no office towers had risen at ground zero nearly five years after terrorists destroyed the twin towers.

NEW YORK Governor George Pataki declared the start of construction of the Freedom Tower on Thursday, even though work began weeks ago.

The war of words between New York state officials and the World Trade Centre site’s private developer has raised questions about plans for rebuilding at ground zero.

TWO lawsuits have been filed in a bid to stop the $6.8 billion (€5.7bn) takeover of significant operations at six major US ports by an Arab company.

A United Arab Emirates company offered today to delay part of its £4 billion takeover of six US ports from a British firm to give the Bush administration more time to convince politicians the deal posed no security risks.