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According to the New York City’s medical examiner, another victim of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center has been identified.

The male victim is the 1,641st person to be identified out of a total of 2,753 people who died in the attack.

The man’s identity – which was determined using new DNA technology – is being withheld at the request of his family.

Before August 7 announcement, it had been over two years since the last identification took place.

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The last time a victim was identified was March 2015.

The man’s identity was determined by New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which had been retesting DNA recovered in 2001.

A total of 1,112 people who died (40%) remain unidentified nearly 16 years after the 9/11 attack.

On September 11, 2001, two planes crashed in New York City plus one at the Pentagon in Virginia and another in Pennsylvania, claiming nearly 3,000 lives and injuring thousands more.

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The FBI has re-released pictures taken after 9/11 attack on the Pentagon six years after they were first released.

The 27 images show fire crews battling the blaze, as well as recovery teams and investigators searching the rubble.

American Airlines Flight 77, travelling from Virginia to LA, slammed into the building at around 09:37 local time on September 11, 2001.

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According to the authorities, the plane struck between the first and second floors of the Pentagon, killing 184 people.

It was previously thought that the images had been newly released because of the fresh date stamp.

However, FBI spokeswoman Jillian Stickels said the pictures were first posted online in 2011.

A technical glitch caused them to disappear from the site for an undetermined period of time, Jilian Stickels added.

The pictures were restored in recent days to public view once the FBI learned they were missing, she said.

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New York’s World Trade Center has re-opened for business more than 13 years after the original towers were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks.

Employees at publishing giant Conde Nast are starting to move into the 104-storey One World Trade Center.

The $3.8 billion skyscraper took eight years to build and is now the tallest building in the US.

It is 60% leased and the government’s General Services Administration has signed up for 275,000 square feet.

“The New York City skyline is whole again,” Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority, which owns the restored site, said in a statement.

The 1,776ft tall skyscraper is at the centre of the site, which includes a memorial in the footprints of the old towers and a museum, opened this year.

New York's World Trade Center has re-opened for business more than 13 years after the original towers were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks

New York’s World Trade Center has re-opened for business more than 13 years after the original towers were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks (photo AP)

An observation deck at the top of the building will eventually be open to the public.

Patrick Foye added the building was “the most secure office building in America”.

TJ Gottesdiener of the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill company that produced the final design said the high-rise went beyond the city’s existing building code, and was built with steel-inforced concrete.

About 170 of Conde Nast’s employees will be moving into the building this week, filling five floors. About 3,000 more employees will join them in early 2015.

Space has also been leased to the advertising firm Kids Creative, the GSA, and 191,000 sq ft for the China Center, a trade and cultural space.

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According to a new research, there’s a 50/50 chance of another catastrophic 9/11-style attack in the next ten years, and an even greater chance if the world become less stable.

The startling figure was floated by a pair of researchers who examined more than 13,000 lethal terrorist attacks between 1968 and 2007.

They calculated the likelihood based on the assumption that the frequency of major attacks, like earthquakes and other natural disasters, using mathematical power law.

Aaron Clauset at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and Ryan Woodard at ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich assume the number of terrorist attacks remains constant for the next decade at about 2,000 a year.

There is a 50 percent chance of another catastrophic 9-11-style attack in the next ten years, according to a new research

There is a 50 percent chance of another catastrophic 9-11-style attack in the next ten years, according to a new research

First, they looked at history and determined that a 9/11-magnitute attack, which killed nearly 3,000 people, had a likelihood of 11 to 35% any time in the last 40 years, according to the Technology Review, which is published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Then they calculated the likelihood of another similar size attack if terrorist incidents remain at the same level they are now. Their conclusion: The chance of another 9/11 in the next decade is 20 to 50%.

However, Dr. Aaron Clauset and Dr. Ryan Woodward also admitted that it’s possible the number of terrorist attacks is likely to decline after US involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq ends.

The study only looked at numbers until 2007, when Americans still had an active military presence in the country.

If terrorist attacks drop off, the probability of another major terrorist attack is reduced to 5 and 20%.

The researchers also played out a third, more dire scenario, using their formula.

If the number of attacks in the next decade increases dramatically, then the chance of a major terrorist event becomes a near certainty: 95%.

The formula doesn’t take into account increased security around the world or the billions of dollars the US and other developed nations have poured into preventing additional catastrophic attacks.

 

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