CONTINENTAL AIRLINES has launched a non-stop service from New York to Belfast that will operate on a daily basis, all year round.

A US judge has opened the door to scores of September 11 legal actions against the aviation industry by ruling that the hijacking and crashing of the planes was a ”foreseeable risk”.

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.

Sopping-wet search crews slogged through the rubble of the World Trade Centre under grey skies that mirrored their dwindling hopes for miracle rescues.