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Tribute to 9/11

Survivors mourned at New York's Ground Zero on Thursday as John McCain and Barack Obama suspended their rancorous White House campaign to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

A moment of silence began ceremonies at the side of the giant pit where the World Trade Center towers once stood, followed by the reading of almost 3,000 victims' names.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said September 11, 2001, when Al-Qaeda-hijacked airliners demolished the Twin Towers and also crashed into the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, was the day the United States "broke."

The anniversary, he said, was about "New Yorkers, Americans and global citizens remembering the innocent people from 95 nations and territories that lost their lives that day."

Family members of victims pay their respects on the seventh anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, at the site of the former twin towers during a commemoration ceremony in New York, September 11, 2008.