An explosion on a London tube’s Parsons Green Station today left several commuters injured. Police have declared explosion on subway a terrorist incident. Police say no one has been arrested in connection with a bombing on a London subway train, but hundreds of detectives are at work trying to hunt down the perpetrator or perpetrators. The incident comes as tensions are high in London, which has been struck repeatedly by […]

What does 65,000-strong crowd with excellent taste in music do when it has time to kill? At a July concert in London, fans waiting for Green Day to take the stage amused themselves with an impromptu rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Thanks to a strategically-placed camera, the moment was captured, and then uploaded by Green Day on their official YouTube page on July 3. The crowd did have a little […]

HIGHLIGHTS •An atomic expert warned the authorities that three powerful bombs would cause ‘complete destruction’. •The letter claims three powerful bombs would have been dropped on London during the Cold War, causing destruction worse than at Nagasaki in Japan. •The Russian head of state from 1924 to 1953 was Joseph Stalin, and from 1954 to 1963 it was Nikita Khrushchev. A possible Russian plot to drop nuclear bombs on London […]

  JUNE 7TH 1665 was an unnaturally hot London day, the hottest that Samuel Pepys had experienced in his 32 years. Sapped by the “mighty heat”, this naval bureaucrat got home late and spent the next few hours pacing in his garden at Seething Lane. He had a lot on his mind. There had been no word of the English fleet that was fighting against the Dutch, and he was […]

LONDON: An unexploded 50kg World War II live bomb has been uncovered near UK’s national football stadium in London, forcing authorities to evacuate hundreds of people living nearby. Residents and traders have been evacuated from nearby buildings, and a 400m cordon has been erected in the area, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. A Britain’s Got Talent studio was also evacuated after the bomb was uncovered by builders near […]

  A collection of Tipu Sultan’s, the last king of Mysore, arms and armour were auctioned for over six million pounds (about Rs.567 million) at an Islamic and Indian art auction in London. The 30 items, which went under the hammer at Bonhams on Tuesday, came from a single collection. The identity of the buyers, from around the world, has been kept confidential. Tipu Sultan’s personal motif was the tiger. […]

Colony of 30 Aesculapian snakes has been living by Regent’s Canal  They are not venomous but kill prey like rats by constricting them Snakes now face possible cull by London Invasive Species Initiative Expert criticised decision and said colony already lives peacefully in Wales Of all the places you’d expect to find an 8ft snake that squeezes rats and birds to death, central London probably wouldn’t be the first. But […]

WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS DISTURBING FOOTAGE   In a disturbing twist to the “sickening and barbaric attack” on a man in London’s Woolwich neighborhood, video has emerged of a man defending the assault. The video appears to show the man proselytizing with a knife and meat cleaver in his bloody hands. The alleged attacker tells the camera, “I apologize women had to witness this today. But in our land, our women […]