Tag Archives: London

One of the world’s biggest ever icebergs – about a quarter of the size of Wales or four times the size of London – has broken off from Antarctica, new satellite images have confirmed. The massive berg, which calved from the Larsen C Ice Shelf, is about 5,800 square kilometres in ...

Central bank Chair Janet Yellen was hospitalized throughout the end of the week in London for treatment of a urinary tract disease, however has been released and is heading home. Yellen, 70, was conceded Friday and discharged Monday from King Edward VII Hospital, the national bank said in an announcement ...

Prince Philip, 96-year-old husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday evening as a “precautionary measure”, Buckingham Palace told CNN. The Prince, also known as Duke of Edinburgh, was being treated at the King Edward VII Hospital in London, Which was for a transit caused ...

One man has died and several more are injured after being hit by a van in a suspected terror attack near a mosque in London. Counter terror police are investigating the incident in Finsbury Park, where eight people have been taken to hospital and two more were treated at the ...

Several people died after a huge fire went through a night in a building in the West Tower of London, says a fire chief. Witnesses said they had seen people trapped inside the burning Grenfell Tower, north of Kensington, shouting help and shouting to rescue their children. More than 50 ...

An EasyJet flight to London made an unscheduled stop in Germany after a passenger reportedly heard other travellers talking about a ‘bomb’ and ‘explosive’. The pilot diverted the plane – flight EZY3246 carrying 151 passengers – after becoming concerned about the suspicious conversation on board. The aircraft, which had taken ...

Trafalgar Square was evacuated by armed police today after they were called to reports of a ‘suspicious item’. The tourist landmark in Central London was cordoned off this afternoon while the nearby Charing Cross Tube station was also closed. One photograph appeared to show a man being led away by ...

South Australian nurse Kirsty Boden, 28, was on London Bridge when she was set upon by terrorists who carried out the attack that left seven people dead just after 10pm on Saturday, local time. In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, Ms Boden’s family said she was “loved and adored by ...

British police have named the third London attacker as Youssef Zaghba, a Moroccan-Italian who is reported to have been stopped at an airport in Italy on suspicion that he was bound for Syria. London’s Metropolitan Police Service said 22-year-old Zaghba was not a “person of interest” before Saturday’s attack. But ...

GREATER MANCHESTER, England — The message onstage and in the crowd at “One Love Manchester,” a benefit concert for victims of the Manchester attack that was hosted by the pop star Ariana Grande, was one of defiance. The event, at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground on Sunday evening, was Ms. ...