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The 80-storey known as 3 World Trade Centre, which rises to 1,079 feet, opened on Monday after years of delay and lack of funding and marks the fifth tallest building in the city, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. The tower, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning British architect Richard Rogers, becomes the second-to-last building to open on the 16-acre site where about 2,700 people were killed when hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Centre twin towers in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called the building

After 16 years, World Trade Center skyscraper opens in New York City

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday took a walk around the Capella Hotel where the two leaders came face to face for the first time in history. In a carefully choreographed encounter at around 9 a.m., Trump and Kim shared a 12-second handshake in the courtyard of the British-colonial style hotel against a backdrop of American and North Korean flags. This was followed by a one-on-one meeting, an expanded bilateral meeting and a working lunch. After their walk, Trump showed off his car - nicknamed 'The Beast' - to Kim, reports The Straits Times. Kim and Trump will also sign a joint declaration that might put out a framework for additional talks, reports The Washington Post. Asked how the discussion went, Trump said:

Singapore Summit: Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un take a walk

US President Donald Trump shook hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday and welcomed the beginning of a

Kim Jong-un-Donald Trump shake hands, begin new era of 'terrific relationship'

First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez of the U.S. Marine Corps leads the 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines over the seawall on the northern side of Red Beach as the second assault wave lands on Inchon, September 15, 1950. Lt. Lopez was killed in action a few minutes later while assaulting a North Korean bunker.

Korean War (1951-1953): Rare historical photos

U.S. President Donald Trump blows out the candle on his birthday cake as he attends a lunch with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana in Singapore June 11, 2018.

Donald Trump celebrates his birthday during lunch with Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong

Lava flows into the Pacific Ocean in the Kapoho area, east of Pahoa, during ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii, U.S., June 5, 2018.

Kilauea's destruction from above

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) greets Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao and other guests while hosting an Iftar dinner in the State Dining Room at the White House June 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. The Iftar is the dinner that ends the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Donald Trump hosts first Iftar dinner, wishes Muslims 'Ramadan Mubarak'

Photographers take pictures as the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft carrying a crew formed of astronauts Serena Aunon-Chancellor of the U.S and Alexander Gerst of Germany and cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev of Russia blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan June 6, 2018.

Russian Soyuz capsule with 3 astronauts blasts off for space station

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that - Ellen DeGeneres, American comedian.

World Environment Day 2018: Quotes, wishes, messages and greetings

Karthik Nemmani celebrates with E.W. Scripps Company CEO Adam Symson after winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, U.S., May 31, 2018.

Karthik Nemmani wins Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling 'Koinonia'

A dissident Russian journalist who was reported murdered in Kiev dramatically reappeared alive on Wednesday in the middle of a televised briefing about his own killing by the Ukrainian state security service. Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko (C), who was reported murdered in the Ukrainian capital on May 29, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko (R) and head of the state security service (SBU) Vasily Gritsak attend a news briefing in Kiev, Ukraine May 30, 2018.

Russian journalist Babchenko turns up alive after reported murder

Detainees attend a service in a chapel at Otay Mesa immigration detention center in San Diego, California, U.S.

Inside Otay Mesa immigration detention center

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