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Norway Arrests 3 Suspects in al-Qaida Conspiracy

(July 8) -- Police in Norway today arrested three men on suspicion of having links to an international al-Qaida conspiracy that was plotting attacks in the U.S., Britain and Norway. The men had been under surveillance for over a year, Der Spiegel said. Two were arrested in Oslo; the other was arrested after being...

Report: Top al-Qaida Agent Met With Subway Bomb Plotter

(July 1) -- One of the three men involved in the thwarted suicide plot to bomb New York City subway lines last year consulted with a senior al-Qaida operative in Pakistan who is considered one of the most wanted terrorists in the nation, according to reports. Pakistani-born Najibullah Zazi, 24, and one of his high school...

Rock-Munching Machine to Burrow Under Manhattan

(April 25) -- On Wednesday night, a crane perched above a four-block pit on the East Side of Manhattan lowered a massive yellow disc from the street into the depths below. Technically called a cutter head, that disc is the 200-ton crown jewel of the tunnel boring machine -- a 450-foot-long, rock-munching monster -- that...

New York subway News From the Web

03/24/11 Spaghetti fight on subway starts etiquette debate Source: Deseret News A video (please note that it does include some crude language) that shows how spaghetti ignited a brawl between two women on a New York subway has ignited nationwide conversation and debate on those topics.

Background on New York subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system owned by the City of New York and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, a subsidiary agency of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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