World Trade Centre to be rebuilt

The organization that owns the space where the World Trade Centre towers stood is freeing itself of the term “freedom” to describe the signature skyscraper replacing the buildings shattered on September 11, 2001.

The change from Freedom Tower was revealed Thursday at a news conference where the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced the signing of the first commercial lease in the building to a Chinese company. The building is expected to be completed in late 2013.

“We’ve referred to the primary building planned for the site as One World Trade Centre — its legal name and street address — for almost two years now, as well as using the name the Freedom Tower,” said Stephen Sigmund, a spokesman for the Port Authority.

“Many will always refer to it as the Freedom Tower, but as the building moves out of the planning stage and into full construction and leasing, we believe that going forward it is most practical to market the building as One World Trade Centre.”

Ten of the building’s planned 108 above-ground floors have been built.

“The fact is, more than $3 billion of public money is invested in that building and, as a public agency, we have the responsibility to make sure it is completed and that we utilize the best strategy to make certain it is fully occupied,” Sigmund added.

He noted that the agency lost 84 colleagues in the September 11 attacks.

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Pinto bags her next film

Movie-maker Julian Schnabel, who was nominated for an Oscar for his highly praised directorial project The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, has cast Freida Pinto to star as the lead of his forthcoming film Miral.

It’s based on the book written by Rula Jebreal, who’s rumoured to be his current girlfriend.

Julian, who has also directed movies like Before Night Falls and Berlin, in fact approached Freida as soon as her introduction film Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire released in the US. Freida certainly seems to be riding high as she will also be doing a film with Woody Allen.

Julian’s movie will narrate the story of a character named Hind Husseini and account the character’s effort to set up an orphanage in Jerusalem after Palestine was partitioned in 1948 and Israel was created. Freida is currently in Jerusalem to research for her character and get acclimatised with the locales with Julian and Rula.

A source close to the film guided us about the development, “Freida was contacted by the film-maker before the Oscars happened and she was really excited. They had a couple of formal meetings and she landed the role in Julian’s movie. Freida also noticed that Rula and she look very similar but when probed it was revealed that casting her was just a coincidence and not because she looked like someone.”

The insider adds, “The film is expected to release in 2010. It is based on Rula’s book The Road of Flowers Miral which was published in 2004. Miral, interestingly, is the name of Rula’s daughter and Freida is supposed to play the lead. The book is said to be based on her real life experiences of growing up in Jerusalem.”

Since Freida is out of the country, she could not be contacted but her official spokesperson confirmed that she is indeed acting in Julian’s movie.

Economic upturn in few months:Obama

Barack Obama has told Americans that he sees signs of economic upturn, but urged them to be patient and look beyond their “short-term interests”. The US President said his plan budget would build a stronger economy which would mean America did not face a repeat crisis in 10 or 20 years.

“We will recover from this decline,” he told in Washington DC.

His $3.6tn (£2.5tn) budget faces its first tests in Congress this week.

He stressed that immediate action was necessary, and urged both Congress and Americans in general to support his plan.

“The budget I submitted to Congress will build our economic recovery on a stronger base, so that we do not face another crisis like this 10 or 20 years from now.”

“We have made the strong choices necessary to cut our scarcity in half by the end of my first term – even under the most negative estimates,” he argued.

Mr Obama urged US citizens to be patient.

“It will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all work together, when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests to the wider set of responsibility we have to each other, that’s when we succeed,” he said.

On Wednesday, he is due to meet Senate Democrats in a bid to gather support for an increased deficit, considered to be $1.4tn for next year.

A Congressional budget office study released last Friday’s estimation that President Obama’s budget would generate deficits totalling $9.3tn over the next decade.

“If these plans are carried out, we run the risk of looking like a Third World country,” Mr McConnell said.

Mr Obama is also preparing for a European trip next week that includes the London G20 summit on the global economic crisis.