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A woman bows her head as the names of the victims killed during the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center are read aloud in New York September 11, 2010. Nine years after the Sept. 11 attacks, visible progress is finally being made toward rebuilding the World Trade Center site known as Ground Zero. Delays from political, security and financing concerns have dominated the public image of the roughly $11 billion project in the absence of a gleaming new skyscraper or memorial to those who died when al Qaeda hijackers destroyed the Twin Towers. A Muslim kisses the word Mohammad, depicted on a wall of the Shahi Jama Mosque, after Eid al-Fitr prayers in Ahmadabad, Saturday, Sep. 11, 2010. Eid-ul-Fitr festival marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. 

Yamuna Floods

 

 

 

The water level in the Yamuna River has risen one meter above the danger mark, threatening to flood the nearby low lying areas prompting authorities to evacuate hundreds of people living in the low lying areas, according to a news agency. President Barack Obama, flanked by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, at the Pentagon Memorial, marking the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 

Bala Ganapati is "the Childlike" God of golden hue. In His hands He holds a banana, mango, sugar cane and jackfruit, all representing the earth`s abundance and fertility. His trunk garners His favorite sweet, the modaka. 

 The three suspended Pakistan cricketers Mohammad Amir, 2nd left, Salman Butt, centre, and Mohammad Asif, 2nd right, questioned by police over fixing allegations pass through Heathrow airport in London en-route back to Pakistan.Afghans paste posters at the mausoleum of the country`s national hero Ahmed Shah Massoud, on the 9th anniversary of his death, in his hometown of Panjshir, 140 kilometers (87 miles) north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 9,2010.