Sources: The Telegraph
Pouria Zeraati زراعتی, an Iranian dissident journalist working for IITV, is injured in a stabbing in London. He is hospitalized in stable condition. 2024-03-29
Six people are injured by a mass drive-by shooting in London, United Kingdom. 2023-01-14
A tower block at New Providence Wharf, London, United Kingdom, catches fire. The block is clad in the same material as that which was on Grenfell Tower, which caught fire in 2017. More than 100 firefighters and 20 fire engines were sent to the scene. 2021-05-7
A man is killed and 10 others are injured in stabbing attacks in Croydon, London, England. 2021-02-5
Tens of thousands of people demonstrate against racism in the United Kingdom. A protest on Whitehall in London turns violent and a mounted officer falls from her horse, which then bolts. 2020-06-6
The London Metropolitan Police Service releases video footage of police cars being driven into suspected criminals on scooters. They say the tactic isn't new. 2018-11-23
Qantas Airways Flight QF9 becomes the first ever regularly scheduled non-stop flight between Australia and Europe after making the 17-hour journey from Perth to London. 2018-03-25
British activists with the Black Lives Matter movement from America block the road to Heathrow Airport and to streets in Manchester, Birmingham, and Nottingham, marking the fifth anniversary of the deadly police shooting of Mark Duggan in north London. Ten protestors are arrested. 2016-08-5
London-based BP agrees, pending court approval, to pay $US18.7 billion to compensate the United States government and the five Gulf Coast states--Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas--for damages stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The settlement includes a civil penalty of $US5.5 billion under the Clean Water Act. 2015-07-2
Talks between the foreign ministers of Britain and Ecuador end with no breakthrough over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who remains in the country's London embassy. 2013-06-17