The British nurse found dead just days after a royal prank by two Australian DJs pleaded for hospital colleagues to forgive her.

A tiny house where residents have to climb on the kitchen units to reach a mezzanine bed is on the market in London.

Police have named the 82-year-old woman who was beheaded by machete in her back garden, as the motivation for the attack remains unclear.

An electronic, auction-based mechanism will replace a ritualised negotiation for silver pricing that's been in place for 117 years.

Personal stories distinguish this war museum, which has reopened on London's South Bank following an $80 million refurbishment. Its showpiece, the display in the new World War I Galleries, was completed just in time for the centenary of the century-defining conflict.

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The Herald's Geoff Cumming and Greg Bowker visit London's Imperial War Museum to mark the centenary of World War One's outbreak.

Police have released CCTV images showing the moment a child in a buggy on a London Underground platform was blown onto the track by a gust of wind.

Former motorsport boss Max Mosley may serve an injunction on Google over the continued publication of images of him taken at an orgy.

Sky News political reporter Adam Boulton showed ultimate professionalism after swallowing a fly live on air.

The BBC explains why it won't investigate Rolf Harris's career at the corporation.

Rolf Harris' lawyer has told a court in the closing arguments of his sex trial that his client has been punished for his infidelity by public humiliation.

A friend of a New Zealander killed by a falling tree branch at the world-famous Kew Gardens in England has recounted the horrifying ordeal at an inquest.

Portuguese police sources have confirmed to a British newspaper that a number of suspects identified by Scotland Yard detectives will be arrested "in the very near future".

The mother and sister of a NZ man killed in London are ready to go there as soon as his body is released to the family.

One baby has died and 14 others are fighting for their lives after being poisoned in NHS neonatal care units in the UK.

Bruce Holmes traces the gruesome footsteps of London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.

An Australian woman says she stopped eating and became a 'shell' of her former self after Rolf Harris assaulted her at a London pub.

It's a London few have seen before. Data sets about people, property, burgeoning banker numbers and haemorrhaging of hedgehogs have been mapped and brought alive.

Circles in the sky have become a hip way to view a city, so prepare your cabin for 'flight', says Peter Hamling.

If you wanted to tell the story of the credit crunch and its aftermath in a single building, the recent history of banking giant HSBC's gleaming headquarters at London's Canary Wharf could be a good example.

London's Gherkin building has entered receivership and will probably be sold after the loan appreciated by 60 per cent and the co-owners defaulted several times over the past five years.

Daniel Scott revisits the Wimbledon Common pubs he frequented in his youth.

A New Zealand accountant who conned his wealthy London neighbours out of $2.2 million has been jailed for eight years in the UK.

A plan to build a skyscraper slated to be the tallest in the City of London, may be revived this year.

A pair of Muslim extremists who hacked a soldier to death on a London street had to be dragged from the dock after they screamed at a judge during sentencing.

In a deserted station, about 20m below the streets of London, engineer Ray Middlesworth turns his great brass key and the Post Office Underground Railway roars into life.

Boris Johnson was yesterday named Honorary Australian of the Year at an Australia Day awards ceremony in the British capital.