The world remembers

TEN years after a morning of devastation set in motion a decade of war and recrimination, America stopped to remember almost 3,000 people who perished in the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Prayers, reflections and moments of silence were shared at the site where New York’s World Trade Center towers collapsed, on the field in Pennsylvania where United Airlines flight 93 crashed and at the reconstructed Pentagon in Virginia.

The names of the dead were read out; bells tolled as bereaved families looked on and the national memorial to the victims was unveiled in the form of two giant gushing pools on the footprint of the former towers.