Sources: BBC
More than 500 people are detained by the Metropolitan Police in London, United Kingdom, under the Terrorism Act 2000 for attending a protest in support of the now proscribed organisation Palestine Action. 2025-08-10
Mohiussunnath Chowdhury is convicted of planning terrorist attacks in London. 2020-02-10
A woman who previously accused late United States financier Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager says she was "trafficked" to Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom and was abused by him at a house in London. She calls him "an abuser" and "a participant". Prince Andrew denies the allegations. 2019-09-20
Packages containing suspected improvised explosive devices are found near Heathrow Airport, London City Airport, and London Waterloo station in London, England. 2019-03-5
The New York Police Department and London's Metropolitan Police Service open investigations into alleged sexual assault allegations against the American film producer Harvey Weinstein. 2017-10-12
A vehicle mounts the pavement and runs into pedestrians in Islington, London, injuring 4. The teenage perpetrators are found carrying offensive weapons, but are not assumed to be terrorists. 2017-03-25
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is wanted for questioning in Sweden, says that he will leave his refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London "soon". 2014-08-18
Altaf Hussain, the exiled founder of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Pakistan, is released in London on money laundering charges. 2014-06-7
More than 215 people have been arrested in London, England since the riots began. 2011-08-8
Metro Bank opens its first branch, in Holborn, London, the first wholly new high street bank in the United Kingdom for more than a century. 2010-07-29