There was not even the grace of instant death. Instead, there was time to call from the sky over Virginia to loved ones, fingers pumping cell phones, voices saying quick, final goodbyes. Full Story

The U.S. government has strong evidence from multiple sources that the suicidal terrorists who carried out today&#039s catastrophic attacks in New York and Washington are connected to Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden, who has previously been linked to an earlier bombing of the World Trade Center, senior officials said today. Full Story

Terrorists unleashed an astonishing air assault on America&#039s military and financial power centers this morning, hijacking four commercial jets and then crashing them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside. Full Story

The symbol of the nation&#039s financial might was a smoldering wreck tonight, as a third tower collapsed at the World Trade Center and the realization came that thousands likely lay dead in the rubble of two of the world&#039s tallest buildings. Full Story

In what appeared to be parallel attacks on quintessential symbols of American financial and military power, hijackers flew jetliners into both towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan and, less than an hour later, into the Pentagon, outside Washington. Full Story

The terror attacks in the nation&#039s business and government capitals may push the teetering economy into recession, analysts suggested. The Federal Reserve said it stood ready to pump extra money into the economy if needed to try to avert such a development. Full Story

Egyptian students, taxi drivers and shopkeepers crowded round television sets stacked up in electrical store windows in downtown Cairo Tuesday evening, celebrating a string of elaborate attacks on New York and Washington. Full Story

Becky Cruz was on a flight from Indianapolis to Las Vegas when the plane was diverted to Albuquerque. “The captain just said there was a national emergency and we needed to land at the nearest airport,” Cruz said. “We don&#039t know what to do now.” Full Story

At least 200 firefighters were killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center on Tuesday in New York, the city firefighters&#039 union said. Full Story

Inside the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had just raced to his office after hearing of the World Trade Center attack. On a house porch a little more than a mile away, Ralph Banton, 79, was enjoying a crystal-clear morning. Full Story

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The police in Batumi, a Black Sea port in Georgia, heard a rumor in July that someone wanted to sell several pounds of high-grade uranium for $100,000. The most tantalizing aspect of the tip was that one of the sellers was reportedly a Georgia Army officer. Full Story

With domestic terrorist attacks becoming more common, the Fire Department wants to contract with the federal government to develop a plan for managing large-scale medical emergencies caused by bombs and biological agents. Full Story

A day before Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was to arrive to meet President Andrés Pastrana, the Bush administration today blacklisted a right-wing paramilitary group as a terrorist organization responsible for hundreds of massacres in its war against leftist rebels. FUll Story

The Italian government says it&#039s moved a forthcoming Nato meeting from central Naples to a nearby military academy. Correspondents say the meeting of alliance defence ministers is being moved because of security concerns after the violent clashes between police and anti-capitalist protestors at the G8 summit in Genoa in July. Full Story

The head of Bangladesh&#039s caretaker government has asked the president to deploy the army immediately in &#039&#039sensitive locations&#039&#039 after clashes between political rivals ahead of an October 1 parliamentary election. Full Story

Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban launched a fresh push against rival forces in the north on Tuesday as mystery surrounded the fate of their main guerrilla foe there following a suicide bomb attack. Full Story

Israeli tanks encircled the Palestinian-ruled city of Jenin under cover of darkness on Tuesday in what the army said was an operation to prevent suicide bombers from reaching Israel. Full Story

For the first time, a suicide bombing was carried out today by an Arab citizen of Israel, triggering fears of violence on a new front within the country and casting doubt on a proposal to establish a military buffer zone between Israel and the West Bank. Full Story

Confusion surrounds the condition of the main commander of the anti-Taleban forces in Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Masood, who was attacked on Sunday. Full Story

There are reports of a new armed attack by suspected Islamists in Algeria, near the country&#039s second city Oran. At least 10 people are reported to have been killed and nine injured when they were attacked after attending a funeral ceremony. Full Story

The threat of terrorism against Americans and U.S. installations spread to Asia Friday as the State Department said Japan and South Korea may be potential targets for attack. Full Story

A federal antiterrorism task force has been searching the Texas office of a computer server that is host to a variety of Web sites of Islamic groups and charities as part of an investigation into the alleged support of terrorism by American Islamic networks, law enforcement officials said yesterday. Full Story

Arab fighters funded by the Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden have become increasingly influential within Afghanistan&#039s Taliban movement and are building a foreign legion to extend the regime&#039s hardline vision of Islam, according to aid workers and analysts. Full Story

Three members of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap group were killed overnight in a clash in the southern Philippines island of Basilan, a military official said Wednesday. The Muslim rebels are holding 18 hostages, including an American Christian missionary couple abducted from a Palawan resort last May. The military said the hostages were still alive. Full…

The United States has warned Libya that it should take no action to compromise American oil installations in the country which have remained closed for years due to Washington&#039s policy of economic sanctions. Full Story

Dissidents fighting government forces in northern Liberia have raided a logging company in Gbopolu, their closest attack to the capital Monrovia in more than a year of war, security sources said on Tuesday. Full Story

The director of the foreign branch of Colombia&#039s secret police is missing following a weekend abduction at his farm outside Bogota, the police agency said Tuesday. Full Story

Leaders of India and Pakistan are headed into another peace-seeking meeting this month but there are few signs either side is ready to bend on the decades-old dispute over Kashmir. Full Story

A bomb hurled by Protestants blew up near police guarding Roman Catholic girls walking to a flashpoint school in Belfast on Wednesday, sending girls fleeing in terror and injuring a policeman, witnesses said. Full Story

What is happening to Gerry Adams, that pillar of the Irish peace process and to the “good” and “moderate” Irish Republican Army that he got to support the peace process? Has the kind, smiling, statesmanlike Irish Dr. Jekyll reverted back into a rampaging, murderous Mr. Hyde? Full Story

Iraqi officials blamed Iran for an explosion Tuesday in the Al-Rasafah area of Baghdad Province, Iraqi TV reported. Full Story

Last week, while discussing new priorities for the Department of Defense, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told the Washington Post that “serious moves to transform the military to meet such emerging threats as computer warfare, terrorism and missile proliferation will not produce new war-fighting capabilities for a number of years.” Although paraphrased, it sounds to…

In Russia, terrorism does not conform to the norms that exist around the world. Here, acts of terrorism occur when it suits the interests of the powers-that-be. The blowing-up of apartment blocks in 1999 marked the start of Vladimir Putin&#039s election campaign. The bus hijacking in Mineralniye Vody by a Chechen occurred on exactly the…

Over the past several years, the United States has embarked on a program of secret research on biological weapons that, some officials say, tests the limits of the global treaty banning such weapons. Full Story

Britain could be caught by surprise by bacteriological warfare or biological terrorism, a former government chief scientific adviser will warn today. Full Story

Britain&#039s foot and mouth crisis shows what can go wrong when a nation cannot deal with a highly infectious disease and should be a reminder of the dangers of biological warfare, a Scottish scientist said on Monday. Full Story

Two University of Utah emergency experts say northern Utah&#039s hospitals and emergency medical crews do not have the planning or supplies to deal with hundreds or thousands of sick or dying patients should bioterrorism or chemical attack occur during the 2002 Winter Games. Full Story

Aum Supreme Truth, the Japanese doomsday sect that carried out a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, made a trial run of an anthrax weapon, using harmless vaccine bacteria as a test, New Scientist says. Full Story

After winning the support of both the Clinton and Bush administrations, federal funding for research on bioterrorism is projected to double over two years, the biggest jump in funding for major programs supported by the National Institutes of Health, a Globe review has found. Full Story

The chief justice of Afghanistan&#039s ruling Taliban said Tuesday the trial of eight foreign aid workers accused of promoting Christianity had begun but Western diplomats in Kabul said they remained in the dark. Full Story

A Palestinian suicide bomber disguised as a bearded ultra-Orthodox Jew blew himself up in Jerusalem Tuesday, wounding 15 people and threatening to derail a new European cease-fire initiative. Full Story

Russian troops shut all roads into the Chechen capital Grozny Tuesday, a day after a bomb struck the rebel region&#039s administration headquarters during a meeting of the Moscow-installed authorities. Full Story

A Palestinian suicide bomber disguised as a bearded ultra-Orthodox Jew blew himself up in West Jerusalem on Tuesday, wounding at least 12 people, after police stopped him on the pavement for questioning. Full Story

Gwen Martin figures she&#039ll spend an extra 30 minutes stuck in traffic every day because of a big change in the neighborhood — the Army post next door is becoming a gated community. Full Story

Isreal took its conflict with the Palestinians to a new level yesterday by assassinating a senior PLO political leader, drawing warnings of large-scale revenge attacks. Full Story

Author Gore Vidal sent an open letter to FBI director-designate Robert Mueller on Monday, saying the agency dropped the ball on the investigation into Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing and asking him to reopen the probe. Full Story

While the Bush administration is worrying about potential missile threats from North Korea, Iran or Iraq, it must not neglect the more immediate danger posed by tons of inadequately secured Russian plutonium. Any country trying to develop nuclear weapons would love to steal a few pounds of the bomb-making material. Yet the White House is…

Militant youths took hostage dozens of oil workers — including at least eight foreigners — at a drilling rig off the coast of West Africa, but released them all Monday, Shell Oil said. Full Story

Italian police on Tuesday defused a crudely made bomb near the U.S. Consulate in Florence. Consulate security guards found the device an explosive in a plastic bag with two wires attached concealed in a shoe box on the street and notified police. Full Story

The Rev. Rogelio Esquivel, a priest who was kidnapped two weeks ago from his church, was freed Monday after family members paid a ransom, a church official said. Full Story

Soldiers opposed to the new leader of the secessionist island of Anjouan briefly seized control of the port and state radio station Monday in the second coup attempt in the Comoros islands this month, witnesses said. Full Story

Israeli troops seized positions in Palestinian-ruled Beit Jala on Tuesday and sent bulldozers into a refugee camp in southern Gaza only hours after Israel assassinated a top Palestinian leader. Full Story

Warning that narcotics posed a threat to social stability and economic growth, government ministers from China and three Southeast Asian countries pledged on Tuesday to step up cooperation in a war on drugs. Full Story

An Internet site being investigated by the RCMP after complaints it was used by Islamic terrorists for recruiting has moved its registered base from Canada to the United States. Two days after the police probe of islamway.com was announced, the Web site switched its domain address from Montreal to Ann Arbor, Mich. The change took…

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is a “savage enemy” according to Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer. Mr Ben Eliezer told Labor party activisits Mr Arafat is directly responsible for violence in the Middle East. Full Story

Palestinian militants killed three Israeli soldiers Saturday in a daring raid on an army outpost in the southern Gaza Strip, and three Israeli civilians were shot dead when their car was ambushed near Jerusalem. Full Story

Israel assassinated the leader of a radical Palestinian faction in a missile strike Monday on the group&#039s offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the faction said. Full Story

A British soldier was killed when his army vehicle came under attack in Macedonia, highlighting the risks to NATO troops set to begin gathering up rebel weapons on Monday under a controversial peace plan. Full Story

A car bomb linked to Basque separatist rebels ETA exploded at Madrid&#039s main Barajas airport on Monday morning, police said, the third attack in a month to target Spain&#039s tourist industry during the peak season. Full Story