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London (AFP) — The body of a suspected stowaway who fell to his death from a Kenya Airways plane landed next to a man sunbathing in his garden in south-west London, a neighbour said.

Thefts on the famous London Underground subway system have surged by more than 80 per cent since 2016/17, around the time Sadiq Khan became city major.

An elderly donkey which gave children rides around London’s Blackheath for two decades has been stabbed as part of what his owner suspects was a “sickening gang initiation”.

A record number of Londoners fled the capital in 2018, new internal migration figures reveal, with an economist blaming the exodus on violent crime and the cost of living.

London mayor Sadiq Khan has reignited his long-running feud with U.S. President Donald Trump, branding the American leader “the poster boy for a global far-right movement” along with Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Matteo Salvini, France Marine Le Pen, and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.

A 38-year-old man has been stabbed to death after a fight in a London neighbourhood that one witness described as a “full-on battle”.

LONDON (AP) — The environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion has postponed a plan to shut down London’s Heathrow Airport with drones after it was criticized by politicians and police.

London’s Metropolitan Police Service has launched its third homicide investigation in 24 hours after a man in his thirties was fatally stabbed in Tower Hamlets, east London.

The Metropolitan Police Service has made ten arrests after two teen males were killed 12 minutes apart in different parts of London on Friday.

Knife crime has risen to a nine-year high with the number of fatal stabbings in England and Wales at its highest level since records began in 1946.

Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt are leading the pack to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after the governing Conservative Party held an internal poll of Parliamentarians Wednesday to whittle the list of ten runners down to seven candidates who will go through to a second round. 

British opposition lawmakers failed Wednesday in their latest attempt to ensure the U.K. can’t leave the European Union without a divorce deal.

Boris Johnson launched his leadership campaign Wednesday by promising to deliver Brexit as a prelude to healing “divisions” in the country, but made clear he was absolutely opposed to taking Britain fully out of the European Union in a no-strings-attached “hard” withdrawal.

Seeing their poll ratings plummet and being all but wiped out in the recent European Parliament elections, Britain’s governing Conservative Party is considering whether more of the same may be the answer to their troubles as they work to pick a new leader.

Nominations are closing in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister, with almost a dozen contenders already battling it out over Brexit, tax policy and past drug use.

First Lady Melania Trump was a rose in a red embroidered and sequined gown as she and President Trump hosted a formal dinner at the Winfield House for Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles on Tuesday in London, England.

A woman was arrested in central London Tuesday evening after the “blimp” designed to mock President Donald Trump was stabbed with what may have been a small pair of cosmetic scissors. 

A landlord renamed his pub Trump Arms to welcome U.S. President Donald Trump to the U.K. and to honor the ties between the two countries.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has spoken of a discussion on Brexit and trade he had with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, confirming weeks of rumours over whether the pair would meet during the State Visit. 

Here is a Donald Trump supporter being attacked with a milkshake, jostled, and shrieked at by an angry leftist mob perpetrating violence with impunity outside London’s Houses of Parliament. https://twitter.com/mattuthompson/status/1135910079889399808 It’s a vignette that illustrates perfectly the state of modern

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has been seen entering the U.S. Ambassador’s residence in London just 30 minutes after President Donald Trump arrived at the stately home aboard Marine One. 

Hard-left Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn railed against President Trump at a protest in London, saying he was “proud” the capital has a Muslim mayor and suggesting the American had created a “sense of hate”.

President Donald Trump arrived at the official London residence of the British Prime Minister Tuesday morning, ready for an afternoon of political talks and a visit to the Foreign Office buildings next door. 

The notorious “blimp” depicting President Donald Trump as a baby, much hyped by the mainstream media, is back in London today — but looked much less impressive than it does in its original promotional material suggesting it would soar over the city.

NPR fact-checked President Donald Trump’s tweet about London Mayor Sadiq Khan, determining that Khan “would be just over 3 feet tall” if he were half the height of Bill de Blasio.

First Lady Melania Trump met Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, and Camilla Parker Bowles at Buckingham Palace in London, England, on Monday, in an iconic white hat and matching skirt suit.

President Donald Trump laid a wreath at, and prayed over the interred remains of an unknown combatant of the Great War of 1914-1918 on Monday morning, during a visit to Westminster Abbey on his State Visit to the United Kingdom.

President Donald Trump fired back at London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s direct attack on him, taking to Twitter Monday morning as he landed in the UK to dismiss the outspoken left-wing politician as a “stone cold loser”.

First Lady Melania Trump paid homage to London, England, as she departed the White House for her and President Donald Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom on Sunday evening. 

Sadiq Khan has said Donald Trump should not be granted a state visit in Britain, branding him part of the “global threat” of a rising “far right” — and accusing Nigel Farage and national populist leaders like Italy’s Matteo Salvini and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán of emulating “20th-century fascists”.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has called for the British Parliament to be dissolved and fresh elections called by the end of the year if the people are “failed once again” by government refusing to deliver the withdrawal from the European Union that was voted for in 2016.

Monty Python star John Cleese is under fire from the left for daringly, controversially pointing out that multicultural London no longer feels very English.

Sadiq Khan has presided over an “alarming hike in violent crime” in the three years since he has become London mayor, according to analysis by the Greater London Assembly Conservatives.

Comedic actor John Cleese, of ‘Monty Python’ fame, has sparked a firestorm by restating that “London is not really an English city any more.”

Gang members in London and the wider country are taking part in a deadly game in which they receive varying points for stabbing or shooting victims in different parts of the body.

Police are looking to charge more than 1,100 people who were arrested during last month’s “Extinction Rebellion” climate protests, a senior officer has said.