Close-knit community shares loss
NEW YORK -- If anything symbolized the powerful connections between Dominican immigrants in New York and their homeland, Flight 587 was it. The well-known American Airlines route even merited a line in a merengue song.

Special military tribunals approved by Bush
WASHINGTON -- President Bush approved the use of a special military tribunal Tuesday that could put accused terrorists on trial faster and in greater secrecy than an ordinary criminal court. The United States has not convened such a tribunal since World War II.

Spanish police arrest suspects in terrorist recruiting
Eleven suspects are accused of recruiting people to train and then carry out terrorist attacks.

Kabul is festive, free
Cautiously, Afghans shrug off burqa and beard, tokens of Taliban oppression, and hope for the best with the rebels.

Bush, Putin vow to slash warheads
President Bush says the U.S. will cut more than 5,000 nuclear weapons in the next decade. President Putin: Russia will respond in kind.

What happened; what's next
Q: Why did the Northern Alliance enter Kabul after the United States asked it not to?

Concern mounts for captive aid workers
The Taliban takes eight foreigners along on the retreat from Kabul. They are charged with proselytizing.

U.N. envoy calls for fast work on Afghan stability
A security force should provide order while a broad-based political plan is established, he says.

Mazer-e-Sharif workers report deaths, looting
TERMEZ, Uzbekistan -- Hundreds of people died and tons of relief supplies were looted as the Northern Alliance wrested control of Mazar-e-Sharif from the Taliban, aid groups reported Tuesday while their workers went around the city burying the dead.

Closing in
U.S. forces are zeroing in on Taliban and al-Qaida leaders and preparing for attacks, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says.

Hunt back on for an elusive letter
WASHINGTON -- The State Department on Tuesday started hunting for an anthrax-laden letter among its impounded mail, after tests found evidence of the dangerous bacteria at eight of 55 sites tested at the department's Sterling, Va., mail-sorting facility.

Air power, defections key to southern stage of war
Analysts say the campaign will be helped by newly captured territory and airfields in the north.

Fateful 37 seconds
The final moments of American Airlines Flight 587, according to a preliminary outline provided by the National Transportation Safety Board and based on data from the cockpit voice recorder:

Attention shifts to breakup of tail fin
Investigators find no evidence that Flight 587's engines exploded. The cockpit tape records a rattling sound.

Rebel march on Kunduz ends in confusion, chaos
BANGI, Afghanistan -- The scene was set for Northern Alliance troops to make another triumphant entrance into a city taken from the Taliban. Then everything went wrong.

Children learn of tragedy firsthand
NEW YORK -- When a plane crashed in the yard one house away from the Rockaways home of 6-year-old Megan Rochelle, it broke a promise her mother made Sept. 11.

Bush wants oil reserves filled
WASHINGTON -- Amid a world oil glut and declining prices, the United States is moving for the first time to fill its emergency petroleum reserve to its full 700-million-barrel capacity over the next few years.