Sources: BBC
The death toll from ongoing flooding in Kenya increases to 181, as more homes and roads are destroyed. 2024-05-1
At least 45 people are killed and dozens of others are missing following a dam burst in Mai Mahiu, Kenya, amid ongoing heavy rains and flash floods in the country, which have killed more than 120 people. 2024-04-29
A newborn baby tests positive for COVID-19 at North Middlesex University Hospital in Edmonton, London, becoming the youngest known victim of the disease in the United Kingdom. The child's mother has also tested positive for the disease. 2020-03-14
Kenya confirms its first case of COVID-19, a 27-year-old Kenyan woman travelling from the United States through London. 2020-03-13
Three people are injured after a car rammed into pedestrians near a mosque in northwest London. The Metropolitan Police are treating the incident as a hate crime. 2018-09-19
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that unidentified rebel factions have shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-25 jet over the Idlib Governorate, near Maarrat al-Nu'man, also killing its pilot. The pilot had escaped with his parachute but was killed on the ground while he fought with a pistol to evade capture. No groups claim responsibility. Russia's Ministry of Defence corroborates this version of events. 2018-02-3
A 27-year-old man carrying several knives in a backpack is arrested at Parliament Square, London, near the site of last month's Westminster attack. 2017-04-27
Baltasar Garzón promises he has a surprise in the case against his client Julian Assange. The Swedish prosecutor refuses to travel to London. [http:--www.standaard.be-artikel-detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20120823_00268925 ("De Standaard", in Dutch)] [http:--news.malaysia.msn.com-regional-swedish-prosecutors-rule-out-london-assange-visit-1 (MSN Malaysia)]date=November 2019 2012-08-23
100,000 people attend the first day of a two-day music concert at Hackney Marshes in London, which forms part of the build-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics. 2012-06-23
The case of a group of elderly Kenyans - 3 men and 1 woman in their 70s and 80s - reaches London's High Court, with the group seeking compensation and apology for their torture by British officers during the 1950s Mau Mau Uprising, including castration, sexual abuse, forced labour and beatings. 2011-04-7