Services held across the world in remembrance of the 9/11 attacks

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Commemorations have been held in respect of the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001.

15 years to the day of the world’s most infamous terrorist attack, which killed nearly 3,000 people, crowds have gathered to pay their respects.

Pictures and roses were left in commemoration at the National September 11 Memorial in New York.

(Mary Altaffer/AP)

At the ceremony held at the memorial, some were overwhelmed by emotion.

(Andrew Harnik/AP)

(Andrew Harnik/AP)

Nearby, in New York’s Yankee Stadium, an American flag was unfurled during a memorial ceremony before the Yankees’ baseball game against Tampa Bay Rays.

(Kathy Kmonicek/AP)

While two team-members laid a wreath in Monument Park.

(Kathy Kmonicek/AP)

Meanwhile in London wreaths and bunches of flowers were left in Grosvenor Square Garden near the US Embassy.

(Yui Mok/PA)

(Yui Mok/PA)