Oil market investors tried but failed to start a rally in crude Thursday, leaving prices hovering below $125 a barrel after an earlier move higher. At the gas pump, prices continued their retreat.
Oil prices edged up Thursday after shedding nearly $4 a barrel in the previous day's session on concerns that high fuel prices are dampening demand in the world's biggest energy consumer.
Three of the men charged with plotting to bomb transatlantic passenger flights pleaded guilty at a London court Monday to conspiracy to cause explosions, report UK news agencies.
A 33-year-old man walked into a south London police station early Monday and surrendered to police in connection with the brutal stabbing deaths of two French students in London last week, a Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said.
Fanny Blankers-Koen stands alone as the only woman to have matched Jessie Owens and Carl Lewis by winning four athletics gold medals at a single Olympics, in London in 1948.
Oil market investors tried but failed to start a rally in crude Thursday, leaving prices hovering below $125 a barrel after an earlier move higher. At the gas pump, prices continued their retreat.
Oil prices edged up Thursday after shedding nearly $4 a barrel in the previous day's session on concerns that high fuel prices are dampening demand in the world's biggest energy consumer.
Three of the men charged with plotting to bomb transatlantic passenger flights pleaded guilty at a London court Monday to conspiracy to cause explosions, report UK news agencies.
A 33-year-old man walked into a south London police station early Monday and surrendered to police in connection with the brutal stabbing deaths of two French students in London last week, a Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said.
Fanny Blankers-Koen stands alone as the only woman to have matched Jessie Owens and Carl Lewis by winning four athletics gold medals at a single Olympics, in London in 1948.
British police investigating the horrific murder of two French students in London Thursday are exploring the possibility it was linked to an earlier burglary.
Oil prices fluctuated Monday, surging past $143 a barrel for the first time and then falling back as a rising dollar prompted some investors to sell. Meanwhile, the price of gas at the pump hit another record high.
A leading Christian church has been plunged into a new row about gay clergy after a marriage-style service between two male priests at a London church, local media report.
The wife of a would-be London train bomber was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in jail for failing to tell police about her husband's plan to attack an Underground station three years ago, the court and police said.
A British Army bomb disposal team is working carefully to dismantle a large unexploded World War II bomb unearthed this week near the future Olympic Park in London, officials said Friday.
A neighborhood in east London was getting back to normal Saturday after British Army engineers detonated a large World War II bomb unearthed this week on a building site, officials said.
A baffling phenomenon known as sudden infant death syndrome is one
of the leading causes of death for children under one. Now, British
researchers say they may have found a contributing factor:
bacteria
It is one of the most hotly anticipated movies of the year and after years of feverish speculation, Sex and the City the movie, premieres in London Monday night.
Emotion-detecting robot cars will face off against eavesdropping
flying saucers in the English countryside when scientists, academics
and schoolchildren compete later this year to design the next
generation of military equipment
Videos of the chaos and horrified reactions after the July 7, 2005, London transit bombings were shown to jurors Thursday in the trial of three men charged with conspiracy in the case.
The contest to be London's mayor, running a city of about 13 million people, has come at a crucial moment in British politics. It could help determine the outcome of the next general election.
A foul smell permeating London and parts of England over the past two days is due to farmers on the European continent spreading manure in their fields, forecasters and British farmers said Saturday.
Six Maasai warriors have journeyed thousands of miles from their remote village in Tanzania to compete in the London Marathon. Their mission is to raise awareness and money for their village of Elaui, where two out of three babies die of water borne diseases.
A "farce," "bitter", "ugly and chaotic," "sinister and slapstick and a "public relations nightmare;" the Olympic torch's journey of harmony and peace hit a large protester-sized road hump in London, the world's press commented Monday.
The Olympic torch was met with widespread protests and scuffles between demonstrators and police Sunday as thousands turned out to protest Olympic host China's human rights record and its recent clampdown on Tibet.
Two former racing drivers are reported to have been killed when the executive jet on which they and three others were traveling crashed into a house southeast of London.
London police said Wednesday they had carried out one of Britain's largest simultaneous drug raids, using more than 500 officers to target suspects at more than 30 addresses in a massive pre-dawn operation.
Walk into a London supermarket, read the label on a bag of Walker's crisps - that's what the British call potato chips - and you will learn that 75 grams of carbon dioxide were emitted when making the 34.5-gram package. What does that mean? I have no idea. Nor do most Brits.
A large fire tore through London's famed Camden Market Saturday night, sending huge flames and clouds of smoke above the city skyline and forcing evacuations, authorities said.
• Kate Moss, picking up her photos – wonder
if she opted for one hour? – during a stop at Snappy Snaps, a camera
shop in London. Next on the model's itinerary: a visit to Ronnie Wood's
house.
• Eva Longoria, returning to her hotel after
enjoying a spot of shopping in London. The Desperate Housewivesstar is currently in the U.K. to promote (and premiere) her new movie,
Over Her Dead Body.
From Harry Potter to Beatrix Potter, Bond to Borat, David Lean to Mr Bean, British cinema, the skills of British actors, directors and technicians have long been respected around the globe. And as the London Film Festival opens in the British capital, one of the starring roles is the city itself.
Humans can now officially be called an urban species. More than half of the global population now live in cities and the United Nations says that by 2030, 60 percent of us will live in them.
It has been a year of promising news for the globe-trotting business traveler. Yes, there have been all the woes of increased airport security, packed planes, heaving hotels and bursting business-class lounges, but some of the headlines have brought encouragement for a better future.
Accompanied by body-armor vested London police officers, Lambeth Senior Trading Standards Officer Ray Bouch walks into a beauty and cosmetics shop on Brixton's Electric Avenue.
The fifth man involved in a plot to bomb London's transport network has been handed a 33-year jail sentence, London's Metropolitan Police confirmed to CNN Tuesday.
A thick plume of black smoke covered the sky over London Monday as blaze broke out in a disused warehouse on the site of the 2012 Olympics. Fire crews were investigating the cause, but it was not thought to be terror-related.
NEW YORK -- Next weekend, the NFL's great leap into international football will begin. And if the NFL has its way, you'll barely notice. Neither will the players.
The Spice Girls haven't lost their appeal: Tickets to the group's London reunion show - their first time together in nine years - sold out in 38 seconds, the BBC reports.
LONDON (AP) -- The NHL opened its season on the banks of the River Thames, and as far as the Los Angeles Kings were concerned, this was hockey country.
Hundreds of thousands of commuters struggled to get to work Tuesday by bus, bike, cab and on foot as a subway workers' strike stretched into a second day
As far as cities go, London is home to some of the world's most expensive and most exclusive day spas, but you don't have to be an A-list celebrity or have an enormous bank balance to get pampered in the British capital.
European and Asian stocks slid again Friday amid persistent fears about subprime mortgage lending troubles in the U.S. and its potential affect on the global economy.
Tired of not being admitted to clubs to see his favorite bands, a 15 year-old impresario started booking gigs himself -- and no one over 18 is allowed in
In 2005, about two weeks after 52 people in London were killed in bombings targeting the English city's mass transit system, terrorists decided to strike again.
Eight people in custody as part of the wide-ranging investigation into failed car bombings in London and Glasgow all have links to the medical profession.
A doctor arrested in Cheshire after the failed car bombings in central London and at Glasgow International Airport last month was charged Thursday with conspiracy to cause explosions, Scotland Yard said.
Britain will expel four Russian diplomats over the Kremlin's refusal to extradite the key suspect in the murder of a former KGB agent fatally poisoned in London
Four men convicted of plotting a series of suicide bomb attacks on London's transport system in July 2005 were sentenced to life Wednesday and will each serve a minimum of 40 years in jail.
Four men accused of taking part in an extremist Muslim plot to carry out a series of suicide bombings on London's transport system in July 2005 have been convicted of conspiracy to murder.
A jury has failed to reach a verdict on two defendants accused of taking part in an extremist Muslim plot to carry out a series of suicide bombings on London's transport system on July 21, 2005.
The world's most famous cycling race comes to London for the first time as the 94th edition of the Tour de France starts on Saturday with an individual time trial for the 189 riders.
As the benign market conditions that have fueled the buyout boom come under pressure, the swelling ranks of private equity firms are likely to be winnowed, leaving only the strongest and sharpest players.
The discovery of an unexploded bomb in a parked London car poses no specific threat to the United States, the FBI said Friday, although it's urging police and the public to remain vigilant.
Police in Britain are combing through evidence in an international search for more suspected terrorists with ties to the attempted attacks in London and Glasgow.
Three terrorist suspects were in police custody Sunday and a fourth man was under guard in a hospital after a flaming jeep crashed into a Scottish airport and two car bomb plots were foiled in central London
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