Obama Ground Zero

Survivors of the American nuclear bombing of Hiroshima will be present when US President Barack Obama lays a wreath at ground zero this week, reports said Wednesday.

US President Barack Obama on Thursday hailed the love and sacrifice he said was "the true spirit of 9/11" as he inaugurated a searing Ground Zero museum about Al-Qaeda attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people.

Where she once welcomed immigrants pursuing the American dream, and more recently hordes of tourists, the Statue of Liberty stood alone today as a victim of the US government shutdown.

September 11 victims' loved ones will gather at ground zero to commemorate the attacks' anniversary with the reading of names, moments of silence and serene music that have become tradition.

President Barack Obama opened a sun-splashed day of solemn remembrance on Sunday by honoring the 9/11 dead with a visit to ground zero, bowing his head at the cascading pools of the North Memorial Pond created in the footprint of the demolished north tower of the World Trade Center.

President Obama visited Ground Zero to lay a wreath at a memorial to the nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11 attacks, six days after ordering a daring night-time raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden, the author of the terrorist attack that turned the patch of land in lower Manhattan into hallowed ground. Mr Obama, in his first visit as...

US President Barack Obama will participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the Ground Zero in New York today to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of 9/11 terror attacks, the White House announced on Wednesday."The President thinks it's entirely fitting and appropriate to visit the site of Ground Zero in the wake of this significant...

US President Obama invited former President George W Bush to join him at ground zero in New York City on Thursday to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden, but Mr. Bush declined, a spokesman for the former president confirmed on Tuesday."President Bush will not be in attendance on Thursday," said his spokesman, David Sherzer. "He appreciated the invi...

The national motto of the United States is e pluribus unum - out of many, one. In most of our lifetimes, no moment has exemplified this better than 9/11.  Now, almost a decade later, a proposal to build an Islamic centre and mosque - two blocks from the World Trade Centre (WTC) site - has sharply divided the country.The protest pit the voices ...

Faced with withering Republican criticism of his defense of the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque near ground zero, President Obama quickly recalibrated his remarks on Saturday, a sign that he has waded into even more treacherous political waters than the White House had at first realized.In brief comments during a family trip...

Weighing his words carefully on a fiery political issue, President Barack Obama said on Saturday that Muslims have the right to build a mosque near New York's ground zero, but he did not say whether he believes it is a good idea to do so.Obama commented during a trip to Florida, where he expanded on a Friday night White House speech asserting that ...

Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less."As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country," Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has riven ...

Despite telling his fellow countrymen not to travel to the troubled hotspots of India, specifically Hyderabad, Obama would be astounded to know 19 of them have landed not just in Hyderabad but inside Osmania University, the ground zero of the Telangana agitation.

Survivors of the American nuclear bombing of Hiroshima will be present when US President Barack Obama lays a wreath at ground zero this week, reports said Wednesday.

US President Barack Obama on Thursday hailed the love and sacrifice he said was "the true spirit of 9/11" as he inaugurated a searing Ground Zero museum about Al-Qaeda attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people.

Where she once welcomed immigrants pursuing the American dream, and more recently hordes of tourists, the Statue of Liberty stood alone today as a victim of the US government shutdown.

September 11 victims' loved ones will gather at ground zero to commemorate the attacks' anniversary with the reading of names, moments of silence and serene music that have become tradition.

President Barack Obama opened a sun-splashed day of solemn remembrance on Sunday by honoring the 9/11 dead with a visit to ground zero, bowing his head at the cascading pools of the North Memorial Pond created in the footprint of the demolished north tower of the World Trade Center.

President Obama visited Ground Zero to lay a wreath at a memorial to the nearly 3,000 victims of the September 11 attacks, six days after ordering a daring night-time raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden, the author of the terrorist attack that turned the patch of land in lower Manhattan into hallowed ground. Mr Obama, in his first visit as...

US President Barack Obama will participate in a wreath laying ceremony at the Ground Zero in New York today to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of 9/11 terror attacks, the White House announced on Wednesday."The President thinks it's entirely fitting and appropriate to visit the site of Ground Zero in the wake of this significant...

US President Obama invited former President George W Bush to join him at ground zero in New York City on Thursday to mark the killing of Osama bin Laden, but Mr. Bush declined, a spokesman for the former president confirmed on Tuesday."President Bush will not be in attendance on Thursday," said his spokesman, David Sherzer. "He appreciated the invi...

The national motto of the United States is e pluribus unum - out of many, one. In most of our lifetimes, no moment has exemplified this better than 9/11.  Now, almost a decade later, a proposal to build an Islamic centre and mosque - two blocks from the World Trade Centre (WTC) site - has sharply divided the country.The protest pit the voices ...

Faced with withering Republican criticism of his defense of the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque near ground zero, President Obama quickly recalibrated his remarks on Saturday, a sign that he has waded into even more treacherous political waters than the White House had at first realized.In brief comments during a family trip...

Weighing his words carefully on a fiery political issue, President Barack Obama said on Saturday that Muslims have the right to build a mosque near New York's ground zero, but he did not say whether he believes it is a good idea to do so.Obama commented during a trip to Florida, where he expanded on a Friday night White House speech asserting that ...

Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near ground zero, saying the country's founding principles demanded no less."As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country," Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has riven ...

Despite telling his fellow countrymen not to travel to the troubled hotspots of India, specifically Hyderabad, Obama would be astounded to know 19 of them have landed not just in Hyderabad but inside Osmania University, the ground zero of the Telangana agitation.