World on alert as reality of US attack sinks in - papers 12 Sept

The FT leads with a report that security was tightened around the world as governments swung into alert mode and tried to take in the full effect of the terrorist attacks on the US, which left thousands dead and plunged that nation into crisis. Surprise raids on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington paralysed the federal government, air transport and financial markets and stunned the world. The FT also writes that trade on European equity markets was volatile shortly after the open on Wednesday, following the previous day's terrorist attacks in the US which...