When the history books are written, the true legacy of the 9.11 will not be one of fear, or hate, or division. It will be a safer world, a stronger nation and people more united than ever before.
At least 45 people have died in two separate fires in Pakistan. In the eastern city of Lahore, 25 people were killed in the blaze at a multistory shoe factory. Police said most of the victims which included the factory owner and his son were burnt to death or died from suffocation. In the port city of Karachi, 20 workers died in a garment factory fire. Rescue workers say many people are still trapped in the burning factory.
Road access to Bolivia's main city, La Paz, has been blocked off by miners demanding that the government hand over part of a tin and zinc mine. Hundreds of miners' blockade blocked the three biggest highways leading into La Paz. The Colquiri mine, which used to belong to Swiss company Glencore, was expropriated by the government in June.
The international pressure group Human Rights Watch says it has fresh evidence of atrocities committed by Rwandan backed rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Based on interviews with 190 witnesses, the study says the rebels known as M23 forcibly recruited young men and boys. Twenty-three of the new recruits are said to have been executed when they tried to escape. The spokesman for Human Rights Watch told the BBC that one woman had been gang raped by rebels, dashed with petrol and then set alight.