In Montreal, a bitter fight between the government and students looks set to continue as Quebec's plan to raise tuition fees is met with fierce opposition. Next, the United States begins to try five men accused of plotting the September 11 terrorist attacks. Finally, Facebook goes to market for a whopping 100 billion dollars, but will investors "like" Mark Zuckerberg’s business plan?
Five men accused of plotting the deadly September 11, 2001 attacks have been formally charged with 2,976 counts of murder and terrorism in a chaotic, marathon court hearing. All defendants refused to enter a plea.
As Jay McInerney has it, « Windows on the World » is « an audacious and outrageous imaginative exercise, as well as a sober and erudite meditation on the meaning of the most painful chapter in our recent history ».Olivier Barrot tells us more.
The confessed mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four accused co-conspirators will be formally charged by a Guantanamo Bay military tribunal on May 5, US defence officials said Tuesday.
The US said Wednesday that self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-plotters would be tried before a Guantanamo military tribunal. The Pentagon said the charges could carry the death penalty.
When the planes struck the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, Imam Mohammad Shamsi Ali's job dramatically changed. Ten years on, the imam of New York's oldest mosque is still intrepidly leading his followers in a faith under fire.
America honoured nearly 3,000 victims on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington on Sunday, as authorities remained on high alert against a potential threat from al Qaeda.
America on Sunday marks ten years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people. Follow our live coverage of the events.
As the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, FRANCE 24's Leela Jacinto takes the temperature of New York City on a day New Yorkers will never forget.
Bells will toll across New York and moments of silence will be observed Sunday to commemorate the 9/11 attacks of 2001, in which almost 3,000 people died. Security services are on high alert for the anniversary.
