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Hate cleric Anjem Choudary pictured with London Stock Exchange bomb plotter
London based hate cleric Anjem Choudary has been photographed with one of the terrorists who recently pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up the London Stock Exchange.

In a photograph, taken in 2009,...


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Becks and Prince Harry party with Katherine Jenkins in London
David Beckham and Prince Harry cancelled their boys' night out to party with Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins on Friday.

The three partied at the Arts Club in Mayfair and despite the snow warnings the...
Syria's release of July 7 London bombings mastermind 'warning' to West?
Syrian authorities have reportedly released the alleged terrorist mastermind behind the July 7 London bombings, that killed 52 people and injured over 700 in 2005.

Abu Musab al-Suri was held in...
There's a case for ending quantitative easing but will the Bank of England listen?
European Central Bank (ECB) has eased fears that the eurozone will slide into a severe recession this year. Upbeat surveys of both the manufacturing and service sectors suggest that the UK should...
British Airways, Ryanair, Cancel Flights After Snow Hits London
Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- International Consolidated Airlines Group SA’s British Airways unit and Ryanair Holdings Plc were among airlines cutting hundreds of flights from London after snow...
German Chancellor to visit China in February
BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit China in early February, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin confirmed on Friday.During Merkel's China visit,...
Legacy after the London Games
After the London Olympic Games, the Olympic Park will be transformed into one of the largest urban parks created in Europe for more than 150 years. The new park will be connected to the tidal Thames...
British Embassy in China establishes countdown clock for London Olympics
British Embassy in China established a countdown clock at the ambassador's residence here on Wednesday to mark the one-year countdown to the 2012 London Olympic Games. "The final countdown...
Chinese swimmers expect breakthrough at London Games
Since the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Chinese swimmers have claimed obvious improvement and aim to make breakthroughs at the 2012 London Olympic Games. China won one gold, three silver and two bronze...
Chinese divers don't dream of gold sweep in London
Chinese divers are happy with 16 full Olympic berths from the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships here in Shanghai, but they never dream of a clean gold sweep in London, team manager Zhou Jihong...
Golden Gateway - the City of Tomorrow, circa 1961
This 1960s urban renewal project embodies everything misguided in the planning of that era, treating the existing city as a thing to be razed or ignored. But give credit to the creators and their...
Report: Syria’s Assad releases alleged al-Qaida mastermind of 2005 London bombings
February 5, 2012 The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad released the alleged mastermind of a July 2005 series of London bombings, a Syrian opposition site said on Sunday, adding that the move...
Boxing to get bigger after London Olympics: Vijender
as he feels men in the ring will deliver more than one medal in the quadrennial extravaganza this July. Vijender won a bronze in the 2008 Beijing Games, the lone Olympic medal...
Kuwait Stock Exchange closes flat after parliamentary elections
The KSE Market Index finished at 5,858 points. End of last week, it was announced that the Islamist opposition won the majority in the northern Gulf state's parliament, the majlis. Year-to-date,...
London canal boat owners must pay to stay near Games
LONDON (Reuters) - Boat owners accustomed to freely navigating London's narrow canals will have to pay to moor near Olympic sites during the 2012 Games, fuelling fears by some that they are...
London v Fermanagh off due to snow
Heavy snow in Ruislip has led to the cancellation of the Allianz Football League clash between London and Fermanagh. The match was due to throw-in at 1.00pm, but the pitch is completely covered in...
Ernemen game in London postponed
Fermanagh's National Football League Division 4 opener against London has been called off because of heavy snow in Ruislip. The match was scheduled to start at 1300 GMT but the pitch was...
Pleasures of London before the Olympics
This is London: Yellow construction cranes tower over inner-city building sites; popular gathering spots rumble with earth-moving equipment, along with the usual heaving masses of shoppers and...
Syrian embassies in London and Cairo attacked
A picture shows broken gate of the entrance of Syrian embassy in Cairo on February 4, 2012 after protesters stormed the embassy overnight, ransacking the mission and setting fire to its ground floor....
Emirates cancels flights to London Heathrow
flights EK29 and EK05 - scheduled to depart Dubai at 09:40 and 16:30 respectively – and the return flights EK30 and EK06, due to depart London Heathrow at 16:35 and 22:00 on the same day, have...
Deep freeze hits UAE flights to London
Several flights from Dubai and Abu Dhabi to London were affected as Heathrow airport announced that only 70% of its daily scheduled traffic will be allowed to operate due to the cold wave affecting...
Hamish McRae: We can survive a eurozone slowdown, but only if the Chancellor gets radical
One of the country's most respected financial journalists and commentators Hamish McRae is an associate editor of The Independent. He was named Business and Finance Journalist of the Year 2006...
Judoka Alice Schlesinger wins bronze in Paris, on the way to London Olympics
Alice Schlesinger all but secured her place in the 2012 London Olympic Games by winning the bronze medal at the Paris Grand Slam tournament and her Israeli rival for the one spot at the under 63kg...
London Olympic countdown: 25 weeks to go
cycling team heads to its final competitive event before the Games at the Track World Championships in Los Angeles. It is the last chance for riders to qualify as part of what is an extraordinarily...
London Olympics could crash the internet, Cabinet Office warns
internet connections during the Olympics due to a surge in the number of people going online at key times. The demand could be such that internet companies might be forced to ration access, according...
Ticket sales postponed for Rams game in London
St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke, after introducing Jeff Fisher as head coach on Jan. 17. (Photo by Erik M. Lunsford / ...
Hannah England relishes the prospect of racing at the London Games
Despite the "bloody cold" weather at Lee Valley this week - a stark contrast from recent altitude training in Kenya - Hannah England is allowing thoughts to stray to this summer's...
12 held in London after day of Syria protests
A dozen protesters have been arrested amid violent scenes at the Syrian embassy in London as the United Nations failed to agree a resolution despite a new wave of killing by the Damascus...
Union, politicians blast Caterpillar's decision to close London plant
Nelson Sarty was still on the Electro-Motive picket line after the plant announced it would shut down Friday, thinking about the job his family had built plans for the future around."It's a...
Greedy Matron Frolics, Cavalier Swaggers, Mozart: London Stage
Topping the list of cheer-uppers in London is a new National Theatre production of "She Stoops to Conquer," Oliver Goldsmith’s mistaken-identity romp of 1773. Sophie Thompson, playing...
Ticket sales suspended for Rams' game in London
o Ticket sales for the NFL's annual game in London have been suspended while the St. Louis Rams try to solve an issue regarding the lease on their stadium. NFL UK said in a statement on its...
Syrian demonstrators storm embassies in Cairo, London and Kuwait
CAIRO -- Syrian demonstrators ransacked their country's embassy in Cairo and broke into the missions in London and Kuwait, part of protests around the world against the worst bloodshed of the...
Huntsville gets no role in Ala. chancellor search
The board that governs the University of Alabama System isn't giving Huntsville officials a seat on the search committee that will look for a new chancellor to lead the three-campus...
London Broncos give Saint Helens a fright as Super League goes retro
Super League has gone back to the future in the 16 years since summer rugby was launched in April 1996, when Paris Saint-Germain played Sheffield Eagles on a balmy spring evening.There were 12 teams...
Six arrested at Syrian Embassy in London
Police arrested six protesters Saturday after violence erupted at the Syrian Embassy in London, where about 150 demonstrators gathered, officials said. The demonstration in London was one of many...
Japan seeks London qualification boost
HONG KONG: Japan will look to take a giant stride toward a fifth consecutive appearance at the Olympic Games on Sunday as Takashi Sekizuka's side travel to Amman to face fellow Group C...
Sex in the city too noisy for neighbours
Sex parties are attracting regular noise complaints from neighbours. Auckland Council environmental control team manager Mervyn Chetty told the Herald on Sunday his officers were being called to...
Snowstorm leads to canceled flights in London
A motorist passes snow that has settled on Dartmoor on February 2, 2012 near Princetown, England. The UK is currently in the grips of a cold snap which has seen the Met Office upgrading its cold...
Olympic Preview Lane Lines to London Looks at Africa in February Issue
PHOENIX, Arizona, February 4. THE February issue of Swimming World Magazine features an Olympic preview entitled Lane Lines to London, sponsored by Competitor Swim...
London 2012 volunteers gather for training
LONDON — Thousands of London 2012 volunteers are gathering at Wembley Arena for their first orientation and training event for the Olympics. The session at Wembley Arena in London on Saturday,...
VIDEO: London prepares to deal with snow
Transport for London (TfL) says more than 10,000 tonnes of salt is ready to be put on the roads, more than ever before. Garrett Emerson of Transport for London said a lot of lessons had been learnt....
London Heathrow cancels flights ahead of snow
LONDON  — Thirty percent of flights at London's Heathrow Airport on Sunday have been canceled amid forecasts for snow and severe weather in London. BAA, the owner of the airport,...