London detectives have been granted visas to Libya to continue an investigation into the 1984 shooting death of Scotland Yard officer killed outside the Libyan diplomatic offices in London, authorities said Thursday.
Tommy Godwin won two cycling medals at the 1948 Olympics. Now he's been chosen as one of Lloyds TSB's torch bearers for the 2012 Games.
[Updated 3:30 p.m. Monday, May 14] This photo is from a rehearsal ceremony for last week's lighting of the Olympic flame.
James Ibori, the former Governor of Nigeria's oil region, pleaded guilty to stealing $250 million over eight years
The arrest of a Nigerian politician who deposited millions of dollars of stolen money in UK accounts has raised questions about the role of British banks in corruption.
When it comes to Olympic ceremonies, London is keen to make sure its schoolchildren play a starring role.
Londoners check out the Olympic centerpiece -- the new main stadium. CNN's Erin McLaughlin reports.
CNN's Ayehsa Durgahee reports on the return of the iconic London Routemaster bus.
Boris Johnson was re-elected as Mayor of London Friday after a narrow victory over Ken Livingstone, who held the post until 2008.
British defense officials consider surface-to-air missiles as part of security during the London Olympics.
The British Ministry of Defence might place surface-to-air missiles on a water tower in a densely populated London neighborhood as part of security for the Olympic Games this summer, a ministry official said Sunday.
CNN's Matthew Chance reports on a 49-year-old man who went on a rampage, destroying office equipment in Central London.
Police identified Saturday the man believed to be at the center of a security alert that closed a major shopping street in central London a day earlier.
Police have arrested the man believed to be at the center of a security alert Friday that closed a major shopping street in central London, a police spokesman said.
Police arrest the man believed to be at the center of a security alert that closed a major shopping street in London.
Three men convicted in a London gang shooting that left a little girl paralyzed were sentenced to life in prison Thursday, the Metropolitan Police said.
Seven years after upsetting favorite Paris to win the right to host the 2012 Olympics, London is in the final straight of a long and often bumpy run-up to stage the sporting showpiece.
An arena where the Taliban used to execute women provides a chilling and incongruous setting for one teen girl's unlikely Olympic dream.
British police look for those responsible for shooting a Russian businessman in London. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
Police hunting the would-be killer of a former Russian banker gunned down outside his east London home have appealed for help to trace the taxi driver who dropped him off shortly before he was attacked.
CNN's Atika Shubert takes a look at the sentences handed down to those involved in the London riots.
Occupy London protesters tell CNN's Atika Shubert that they are not deterred by their camp being broken up.
Hundreds of police in riot gear staged an early morning raid Tuesday to clear Occupy protesters from a campsite outside London's St Paul's Cathedral, activists said.
Nine men were jailed in London Thursday on terror charges, four of them over "an al Qaeda-inspired plot" to bomb the London Stock Exchange, UK police said.
CNN's Pedro Pinto previews the star-studded line-up for Monday's Laureus World Sports Awards in London.
George Osborne will sign a deal on Monday with Hong Kong aimed at helping turn the City into an offshore trading centre for the renminbi in what the chancellor sees as a vote of confidence in London.
CNN's Jim Boulden investigates the Olympic Games that have made and lost money.
A deal which would have seen English football club West Ham United move into the London 2012 Olympic Stadium collapsed on Tuesday, casting doubt over the future of the purpose-built venue.
Overseas stock markets closed a difficult year on a slightly positive note Friday, as markets in London and most of Asia closed slightly higher for the day while other European markets were also holding gains ahead of their close.
Roger Federer wants to add an Olympic singles gold medal to his list of achievements in tennis after securing his 70th career title at the ATP World Tour Finals in London.
On Friday in London's Trafalgar Square, 5,000 members of the public were served a free hot curry, free apple juice and an array of fresh groceries.
A total of 179 people were arrested Friday in central London during Remembrance Day commemorations, the city's Metropolitan Police told CNN Saturday.
London has beaten off the challenge of Doha to be named as host for the 2017 World Athletics Championships.
It is a year since an 18th-century Chinese vase was sold in London for $68 million, smashing world records.
For centuries the city of London has been the center of European finance, but what's in store for the district's future?
The financial sector has long been London's lifeblood, positioning the city as Europe's center of commerce.
Occupy London's "general assembly" laid out Wednesday a statement saying it is seeking "a global system that is democratic, just and sustainable."
CNN's Erin McLaughlin reports on a clergyman resigning over St. Paul Cathedral's handling of Occupy London protesters.
London's landmark St. Paul's Cathedral will suspend its legal action against Occupy London protesters camped outside, it said Tuesday.
The Dean of London's historic St. Paul's Cathedral has resigned amid criticism of his handling of a large "Occupy" protest taking place on the church's doorstep.
Authorities in London agreed to take court action Friday to remove anti-capitalist protesters who have spent two weeks camped outside St. Paul's Cathedral.
A senior figure at London's landmark St. Paul's Cathedral stepped down Thursday, apparently over concerns that it planned to evict anti-capitalist protesters camped outside.
On the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, tourists gaze out over a tent city within the City, an impromptu encampment in the shadow of one of London's most enduring landmarks.
After rumblings across the financial markets in the last few months, art dealers from around the world have gathered in London for the city's premier contemporary art fair Frieze in hopes of shifting an estimated $350 million USD (according to art insurers Hiscox) worth of art.
A court in London has heard recordings of a phone conversation in which an agent acting for several members of the Pakistani cricket team allegedly discussed deliberately losing a cricket match in exchange for $1.2 million.
There's a good party atmosphere on Notting Hill's streets for day one of the annual Carnival.
Police in London are lining up a huge police operation for the Notting Hill Carnival in the wake of the rioting and looting that hit the city earlier this month.
In the midst of the looting in north London, I saw a young man being arrested for attempting to steal a TV from a shopping mall.
Two men have been jailed for four years each in northwest England for inciting disorder via social networking sites, as rioting and looting erupted in London and other cities last week, police said Tuesday.
Kate Middleton's former stylist teaches you how to dress like a princess.
It will be grand, it will be glitzy and there will be plenty of pomp and circumstance. When Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton finally tie the knot on April 29, all of London will be on show.
Two men will appear in court in the hit-and-run deaths of three in Birmingham, England. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
For three nights this week riots struck London, Birmingham and other British cities, closing businesses, destroying landmarks and creating fear and panic among residents. An economy already on the edge lost millions of pounds of opportunities. Confidence in government in general and the police specifically was crushed as officers were seen standing by while looters took what they pleased.
A Malaysian student mugged during the London riots speaks out from his hospital bed. CNN's Phil Black reports.
Four European countries ban the short-selling of financial stocks. CNN's Nina Dos Santos reports.
Before they started appearing in court, most people assumed London's rioters and looters were unemployed youths with no hope and no future.
One American tourist hasn't let a brush with looters in London derail her vacation.
CNN's Dan Rivers reports on the racial tension growing amidst the rioting and looting.
Virgin Atlantic CEO Steve Ridgway discusses the possible fallout from the London riots and the volatile global markets.
On Saturday, Aug. 6, people gathered in Tottenham to protest the police shooting of a 29-year-old local man. It quickly escalated into riots, looting and arson.
Vice gets a firsthand look inside the riots raging throughout London. Go to VBS.TV for more.
Londoners react to the recent riots.
Heavy policing has brought calm to London after several days of rioting and looting, but trouble has continued to spread to other cities around the country.
CNN's Dan Rivers was there as terrified London residents ran for cover.
After a fourth consecutive night of violence that convulsed much of London and spread elsewhere in Britain, the scene before dawn Wednesday was largely calm, a tentative calm enforced by thousands of police.
After three days of rioting and looting in the streets, London's unrest is moving to the Web.
"F*** Columbus! Rodney King discovered America!"
The above map pinpoints various hotspots in London and the United Kingdom that have seen violent confrontations between police and hooded youths in the past three days. Riots and looting began in the north London suburb of Tottenham on Saturday August 6 and has continued in the nights since.
Fresh from their own revolution, Egyptian bloggers tried to make sense of the scenes of looting and burning buildings coming out of the United Kingdom Monday.
This is the debut of Startup Radar, a new weekly column focusing on the hottest and most innovative private tech companies.
An 18-year-old man has been arrested in Scotland on suspicion of being linked to computer hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec, police in London said Wednesday.
It could have been the 15,000 participants, or maybe the $100 million price tag, or perhaps The Flying Man, the guy who lit the torch after completing his final lap of the Olympic Stadium track while suspended in midair. Whatever the cause, organizers of next summer's London Olympics must have felt gobsmacked by the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The Games are all about quadrennium-upon-quadrennium comparatives -- faster, stronger, higher and all that -- and in the Olympic event that could be called synchronized can-you-top-this, the Chinese retired the trophy.
CNN's Atika Shubert visits London's Olympic village.
A look at the work being done to restore, rejuvenate and clean east London's industrial areas for the 2012 Olympic games.
When he became the Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police in 1972, Robert Mark told his new subordinates: "The basic test of a decent police force is that it catches more criminals than it employs."
If you're looking for one lesson from the phone-hacking scandal engulfing the media in London, try this: Reporters have simply traded their candlestick phones for a cell.
More than a decade of Harry Potter devotion reaches its climax for fans on Thursday with the premiere in London of the eighth and final movie in the record-breaking series.
Watch the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, streaming live from London.
The Black Eyed Peas frontman was uninjured after leaving London's Park Lane Hilton
Whether you were riveted by the royal wedding frenzy or can't wait for the 2012 Olympics to start, there's no denying the host city's multifaceted appeal makes it one of the most exciting destinations in Europe.
British prosecutors are charging a policeman with manslaughter over the death of a man during G-20 protests in London in 2009 -- reversing an earlier decision not to press charges -- they announced Tuesday.
A lot has changed since the 17th century, when Oliver Cromwell overthrew the monarchy -- violently turning England into a short-lived republic. Today, British republicans fight with ... street parties.
London police arrested 55 people from inside and outside the areas cordoned off for the royal wedding, the department said Friday night.
The newly ennobled Duke and Duchess of Cambridge ride in a 109-year-old carriage
The royal wedding morning will be long. From the moment the first guests arrive at 8:15 a.m. London-time to when the couple appear on the balcony at 1:30 p.m. will be about five hours.
Wondering what will happen when William and Kate are married? CNN's Richard Quest explains it all.
The crowds continue to grow by the minute along The Mall as royal wedding anticipation reaches fever pitch with less than 24 hours to go.
CNN's Phil Han talks to campers along the royal wedding route who are getting ready for Kate and William's big day.
When Kate Middleton and Prince William kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on Friday afternoon, all bloody hell could break loose online.
It will be a day to remember. When Prince William and Kate Middleton get hitched on April 29, an estimated crowd of 1 million people will spill onto the streets of London in order to see the couple say "I do."
British police chiefs on Tuesday warned protesters planning to disrupt the royal wedding that they will be dealt with "robustly and decisively."
CNN's Dan Rivers talks to some of the groups expected to protest on Prince William and Kate's wedding day.
Airfares to England next weekend are sky high, but that doesn't seem to deter many tourists eager to get there in time for the Royal Wedding.
Fashion experts attending London Fashion week give their take on the clothes they would wear to a Royal Wedding.
Spring is in the air and with a royal wedding afoot, what will the best-dressed guests be wearing at Westminster Abbey on April 29 when the UK's Prince William marries Kate Middleton?
When news of the Royal Wedding was announced I enthusiastically flew the flag with the international media who beat a path to our door. They could not get enough of it: Who'll design the dress, how much champagne will guests drink, who will be invited, would Harry be best man and what will it cost?
London puts the final touches on royal wedding preparations. CNN's Isha Sesay reports.
Want to sound like Kate Middleton? Take CNN's lesson in speaking posh English.
In only two weeks, an estimated 600,000 people will descend on London for one of the most anticipated royal events -- the wedding of Britain's Prince William to long-time love, Kate Middleton.
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