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Americans are preparing to commemorate the September 11, 2001 deaths of nearly 3,000 people killed when terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, and a Pennsylvania field.

U.S. President Barack Obama plans to meet with the leaders of China and France at the G20 summit, which is being dominated by concern about Syria but also is focusing on economic issues.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attends the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.

The arrivals board at Vienna International Airport, 22 June 2012.

Atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States on 18 April 1953 at the Nevada Test Site.

Containers of mélange, a toxic rocket fuel component, ready for transport from a military base in Ukraine

Amidst heightened tensions across the region and as the number of Syria’s refugees rises beyond 2 million – half of them children – UNICEF continues to provide urgent life-saving supplies to children inside Syria and in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon delivers remarks at St. Petersburg State University, Russian Federation.