9/11 victim's phones in display for 10th anniversary

The burned mobile phones of 9/11 victims are going on display in a exhibition to mark the tenth anniversary.

The devices which were still heard ringing as desperate family members tried to contact loved ones trapped in the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center are a haunting memento of the 2001 attack. Rescue workers could also hear the phones ringing while they delved for bodies.

  A cross-section of Richard Reid's shoe.

Other items on show include the passport of failed shoe bomber Richard Reid, which is displayed alongside the matches he tried to ignite the fuse with, and the sedatives used to placate him. There is also a cross-section of his shoes, displayed alongside pieces of the engine and landing gear of United Airlines Flight 175.

North Tower's antenna stands in front of a backdrop of front pages.

The deeply personal exhibit also shows the wallet of Ruth McCourt, who was with her four-year-old daughter Juliana on the second plane to hit the towers.  They were visiting Disneyland. A picture of the pair together on the beach is also seen.  The museum's Susan Bennett added: "A lot of family members want to make sure there are public displays because they don't want people to forget what they lost that day."

Visitor looks at the remains of airplane engines. 

Osama bin Laden's Compound

In this May 2, 2011 file photo taken by a local resident, the wreckage of a helicopter next to the wall of the compound where according to officials, Osama bin Laden was shot and killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The U.S. suspects that Pakistan retaliated for the humiliating American raid that killed Osama bin Laden by letting the Chinese military see secret American technology used in the mission.

A general view of the final hiding place of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in May 2011. US commanders of the raid on Osama bin Laden considered a more down-to-earth way of entering his compound than swooping in by helicopter.

In this undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released Saturday, May 7, 2011 by the U.S. Department of Defense a man, who the American government identified as Osama bin Laden, watches television, showing an image of U.S.

A Pakistani girl carries plastic water container as she heads back to home after getting drinking water from nearby point at neighborhood of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 11, 2011.

Local residents gather to view the house of former al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, seen in background, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Sunday, May 8, 2011, as security stops people approaching close to the walled compound. 

Aerial view of Osama bin Laden's compound in the pakistani city of Abbottabad made by the CIA.

American Gangster Al Capone's gun sells for $110,000 at auction

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone January 17, 1899  January 25, 1947 was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate Known as the "Capones", the group was dedicated to smuggling and bootleggingliquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.

 A handgun once owned by gangster Al Capone was sold for almost $110,000 at an auction in London.

Christie's auction house in London said the Colt .38 revolver was sold to an anonymous bidder in the room.

The gun was manufactured in 1929, the year of the St Valentine's Day Massacre, when seven people were killed in Chicago amid ongoing battles between Capone's gang and a rival group.

               Despite his illegitimate occupation, Capone became a highly visible public figure. He made various charitable endeavors using the money he made from his activities, and was viewed by many to be a "modern-day Robin Hood".In the final years of Capone's life, his mental and physical health deteriorated due to neurosyphilis, a disease which he had contracted earlier. On January 25, 1947, he died from cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke.