In the 21 years since their destruction on 9/11, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center have posthumously become such powerful symbols of Americanism that it is easy to forget how unpopular ...

It was, as Angus Kress Gillespie, author of the book Twin Towers, put it, "a pioneering translation into the vertical of horizontal mass transportation." The result: 75 percent of the floor space ...

For both Fred and Janice, it was the beginning of a terrifying one hour and 42 minutes that would leave more than 2,800 innocent people dead and the Twin Towers, symbols of New York, shattered.

Since the public opening on April 4, 1973, New York's iconic Twin Towers remained a symbol of the city up until the tragic September 11 attacks. Take a look back at the iconic structures ...

A grieving brother whose sibling died on 9/11 has grown to "distrust" the story of the Twin Towers. Geoff Campbell ... I just want to know the truth.” A 3,000-page dossier was handed to the ...

Felix Sanchez, 29, a broker at Merrill Lynch, fled from his office minutes before the twin towers collapsed on September 11, the New York Post reported. Yesterday he was on board the Dominican ...

The video starts post-impact, with the Twin Towers engulfed in smoke and flames while the sounds of shocked spectators are ...

A photographer has described how the Twin Towers collapsed before his eyes. Phil Penman from Briantspuddle, Dorset, captured more than 500 photos of the catastrophic event in New York on 11 ...

Twenty years ago, the terrorist attack on September 11 made New York’s landmark Twin Towers come tumbling down like a house of cards, killing nearly 3,000 people. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki ...

The 'Twin Towers", as they are rather curiously called by the media, rise to more than 320ft (97m) and 30 storeys in a densely populated neighbourhood in the city of Noida. Some 3,700kg of ...

The Los Angeles City Council has approved a zone change that clears the way for Jamison Services to build twin apartment towers on a site occupied by a parking garage in the city's Koreatown ...

The winners of the contest for Costume of Poorest Taste are definitely 7-year-old twins Ilay and Nehoray, who dressed up as the burning World Trade Center towers with the planes still in them on 9/11.