MONTREAL - The head of the international agency that oversees civil aviation says that, a decade after the 9-11 attacks, world security experts need to focus more heavily on identity fraud.

He made the comments at the start of a four-day symposium that's examining ways to improve the monitoring of passports and travel documents.

"The way forward in my opinion is clear," Raymond Benjamin, the secretary-general of the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization, said Monday.

"We first need to sharpen our focus on preventing identity fraud as we maintain our traditional emphasis on document security."

GANDER, N.L. -- It was an open-hearted bear hug from famously giving people -- an act of faith that restored hope in humankind for passengers stranded 10 years ago on 9/11 in Gander, N.L.

Several grateful travellers whose planes were diverted to this central Newfoundland town on Sept. 11, 2001, returned Sunday for an emotional memorial service as similar events took place across the country.

They wanted to thank Newfoundlanders and other Canadians who answered the terrorist attacks on the United States, not with fear or suspicion but with kindness for strangers.

"It's something that I haven't found any place else, and I've travelled the world," Elaine Caiazzo of Bethpage, N.Y., said of the welcome she found in Gander.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - For all the journalistic firepower gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on Sunday, the small moments captured by cameras resonated most deeply.

A 21-year-old boy regretted that his father wasn't there to help him learn how to drive a car. Young hands grasped at a name etched in a memorial as if they could touch the person himself. A young woman asked a mother no longer there if she is proud of her family.

Live coverage of sombre ceremonies memorializing the attack victims dominated television networks on Sunday, the climax of two weeks of attention paid to the historical marker. Newspapers published special sections and websites offered their own content — Yahoo even observing a digital moment of silence.

The television coverage was centred on the annual memorial service at New York's World Trade Center. CNN kept a timeline, occasionally flashing mileposts of what happened 10 years ago at their precise moments: as former President George W. Bush read a letter from Abraham Lincoln to the mother of five men killed in the Civil War, the screen noted that exactly 10 years ago Bush's chief of staff was whispering to his boss that "America is under attack."

PICTURE the scene: the big three of the Winnipeg Jets’ hockey brain trust — Kevin Cheveldayoff, Craig Heisinger and Claude Noel — hunkered down in their offices at the MTS Centre attacking the long list of items on the to-do list.