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In places as far-flung as Beirut, Nairobi, Tokyo and Kabul, people gathered for heartfelt gestures.
Stock exchanges around the world opened late or suspended trading for a moment of silence.
Three thousand Australians answered a Queensland radio station's call and turned up in red, blue and white T-shirts to
form a huge U.S. flag on Surfers Paradise beach.
In Paris, two powerful beams of light were projected into the sky.
Starting with choirs in New Zealand, 15,000 musicians around the globe performed Mozart's Requiem to mark the moment in
every time zone when the first airliner hit the World Trade Center.
"No situation of hurt, no philosophy or religion can ever justify such a grave offense on human life and dignity," declared
Pope John Paul II, who dedicated his weekly Vatican audience to the anniversary.
In Moscow, there were prayers as well as protests to mark a day that became a turning point toward a new, warmer relationship
between the United States and Russia. President Vladimir Putin, the first world leader to phone President Bush a year ago,
called him today to mark the anniversary.
"In Russia, we say that time heals everything, but there are things that we cannot forget and which must not be forgotten,"
Putin said in remarks broadcast on Russian television.
At the historic Berlin Cathedral, Germans quietly leavened their remembrance with dismay over how to deal with Iraq. "How
do you respond to violence -- by swearing off violence or by resorting to more violence?" asked the Lutheran bishop of Berlin,
Wolfgang Huber, in a midday ceremony at the Dom that was attended by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and U.S. Ambassador Dan
Coats.
In Israel, whose close ties to the United States were deepened by the attacks, a candlelight vigil took place at the U.S.
Embassy in Tel Aviv.
Mexico's President Vicente Fox led a crowd in Baja California in observing a moment of silence. "On this date, the people
of the United States are in our thoughts," the president said, noting that Mexicans also died in the attacks.
In Tijuana, a 77-foot Tower of Hope -- dedicated to ending all violence -- was unveiled in a ceremony commemorating the
attacks.
In Indonesia, concerns about a possible terrorist attack forced U.S. officials to cancel a memorial service.
Iraq's state-owned weekly publication Al-Iktisadi, meanwhile, covered its front page with a photograph of a burning World
Trade Center tower and a headline in red: "God's Punishment."
In London, the emphasis was on British-American solidarity. A tattered British flag recovered from Ground Zero in New York
was presented by New York Police Lt. Frank Dwyer to British Home Secretary David Blunkett this morning at a ceremony at Grosvenor
Square, next to the U.S. Embassy. More than 3,000 white rose petals -- one for each victim of the Sept. 11 attacks -- gently
cascaded today from the stately dome of St. Paul's Cathedral upon worshipers gathered here to commemorate the first anniversary
of the deaths across the Atlantic.The memorial service, attended by Prince Charles, his son Prince Harry, Prime Minister Tony
Blair, U.S. Ambassador William S. Farish and about 600 relatives of the 67 Britons who died in the attacks.
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| The memorial service, St. Paul's Cathedral, London. |
People who had hoped that the 9.11.2002 date would bring them luck in the lottery were pleasantly surprised after
the New York Lottery's winning numbers for the evening drawing, 911, were chosen.
Those numbers had sold out for the previous day's midday drawing, anytime 10,000 tickets are sold for a particular
set of three numbers, sales of those numbers are cut off.
It was not known last night if the numbers had sold out yesterday, the standard payout for a winning ticket is $500,
regardless of how many people choose the winning numbers.
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| Gondolas in Venice, Italy. |
In Tokyo, flowers were left in front of the U.S. embassy by Japanese wishing to express their sympathies, and a group
of Buddhist monks gathered in the same place, to chant memorial prayers.
At London Central Mosque, Muslim leaders offered Quranic prayers for peace, justice and tolerance.
In Sydney, Australia, thousands of motorists turned on their headlights at 8:46 a.m. as a mark of respect for those who
died.
Ireland, which took last year's attacks on the World Trade Center almost as personally as America, observed a minute's
silence and held services to commemorate the dead.
Cities around the globe paused for moments of silence, while candles were lighted and flowers laid outside U.S. embassies
from Copenhagen to Moscow to Manila.
In Pisa, Italy, a white banner placed by the Leaning Tower read: "From the tower to the towers. Sept. 11, 2002. Memory,
solidarity and peace."
In Afghanistan, a country battered and transformed by the events of Sept. 11, soldiers and diplomats unveiled the site
where a piece of the World Trade Center was buried under the flagpole at the U.S. Embassy, as a bugler played taps and the
Stars and Stripes was lowered to half staff. A steel-gray marble headstone marked the resting place of the remains brought
from the ruined towers by a Marine from New York. Inscribed on it: "We serve because they cannot."
A bell tolled 40 times, once for each victim of Flight 93, as thousands solemnly gathered in a western Pennsylvania field
to remember passengers and crew hailed as heroes for struggling to take back their hijacked plane from four terrorists. The
tolling, accompanied by the reading of each victim's name, led up to the moment that the plane crashed at 10:06 a.m. last
year. It followed a minute of silence "for world peace" and a fly-over by three military planes.
Bagpipers led solemn
marches from far-flung neighborhoods to ground zero in lower Manhattan to begin a daylong series of events. New York
City's official memorial service got under way with a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., the exact time the first hijacked jet
crashed into the World Trade Center.
On the eve of the anniversary, the Bush administration raised the nationwide terror alert to its second-highest level,
heightened security at federal buildings and landmarks, and closed nine U.S. embassies overseas as new intelligence warned
of car bombings, suicide attacks and other strikes.
At Ground Zero, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani led a parade of dignitaries reading the names of the 2,801 people
killed or missing in the trade center attack. Name readers included relatives of victims from hard-hit companies like Cantor
Fitzgerald and Aon. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and actor Robert De Niro also were on the
list.
President Bush laid a wreath at ground zero in the afternoon, and at 9:01 p.m., he delivered an address to
the nation from Ellis Island, with the Statue of Liberty as his backdrop.
Mr. Bush also attended a ceremony Wednesday morning at the Pentagon, where 189 people were killed on Sept. 11 when American
Flight 77 crashed into the building. The president and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stood beneath a massive American
flag as it was unfurled on the side of the restored building.
The President traveled to Shanksville, Pa., to take part in another solemn ceremony in honor of the passengers and
crew of United Flight 93, who have been hailed as heroes for struggling to take back their hijacked plane from four terrorists.
The day was being marked in smaller ways in thousands of American cities and towns that felt the shockwaves of the worst
terrorist attacks in U.S. history.
Splinters of the destroyed buildings were on display in states such as Nevada, Tennessee, Ohio and Wyoming.
Public schools in several states honored the day with special events, including a moment of silence at 9:40 a.m. in all
Washington, D.C. classrooms. That's the moment when a plane carrying three Washington students and three teachers hit the
Pentagon.
On the sprawling statehouse lawn in Columbus, Ohio, 2,999 American flags and one Ohio flag were arranged to depict the
twin towers.
In San Francisco's Washington Square, more than 3,000 flags flew, including those of 14 other countries whose citizens
were among the victims.
At Boston's Logan International Airport, where the two planes that struck the trade center took off, all ground operations
stopped at 8:46 a.m.
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| The sun rises over Ground Zero, 9.11.2002. |
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