'Examiner' at 180 — 2000-2010: A decade which gave us one of the darkest days in US history

Although the Y2K scare went off without incident, the horror of 9/11 was just around the corner, and the 2008 financial crash brought the noughties to a dark close

The twin towers of the World Trade Center billow smoke after hijacked airliners crashed into them on September 11, 2001. Picture: Henny Ray Abrams/AFP/Getty Images

The new millennium arrived without too much havoc, as the Y2K computer scare passed without incident.

In the US, George Bush was elected president 36 days after a historically close election.