| July 24, 2008 | - Actor Christian Bale was arrested in London for allegedly assaulting his mother and sister.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| June 29, 2008 | - Gardeners across Britain were reporting a harvest of deformed, dangerous vegetables, traced back to the Dow AgroSciences herbicide aminopyralid, which can wind up in manure. It was “scandalous,” said a woman with a patch near Bushy Park in London, “that a weedkiller sprayed more than one year ago, that has passed through an animal's gut, was kicked around on a stable floor, stored in a muck heap in a field, then on an allotment site and was finally dug into or mulched on to beds last winter is still killing 'sensitive' crops and will continue to do so for the next year.”
| Source:
The Guardian
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| June 15, 2008 | -
British and American special forces were operating in Pakistan in an attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before George W. Bush leaves office. “If he can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden,” a U.S. intelligence source told the “Times” of London, “he can claim to have left the world a safer place.”
| Source:
Times
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| June 15, 2008 | - Two Anglican priests married in London,.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| February 27, 2008 | - A man who calls himself “Osama bin London” was convicted of running terrorist training camps in England.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| January 27, 2008 | - Seif al-Islam Qaddafi, the 36-year-old son of Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was linked to attacks that killed 38 Iraqis, wounded 225, and destroyed 50 buildings in a Mosul slum. The London School of Economics graduate, known in Libya as “the Engineer” for his reputation as a reformer and an advocate of human rights, allegedly funds the Seifaddin Regiment, which is allied with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
| Source:
AP
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| December 2, 2007 | - A 3.3 pound truffle sold for $330,000 at an auction held simultaneously in Macau, London, and Florence. The winning bidder, Macau casino owner Stanley Ho, outbid the British artist Damien Hirst and Sheikh Bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi.
| Source:
Giant truffle sets record price
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| November 8, 2007 | - A London woman, who says she only called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist” because “it sounded cool,” was convicted under the UK Terrorism Act for posting poems on the Internet praising Osama bin Laden and for owning terrorist manuals. “You have been in many respects,” said the judge, “a complete enigma to me.”
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| October 3, 2007 | - A Thai restaurant in London was cordoned off by police after passersby mistook the smell of its extra-spicy homemade chili sauce for a chemical outbreak.
| Source 1:
Cape Times
Source 2:
Sky News
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| July 2, 2007 | - Police found a pair of Mercedes-Benz sedans filled with gasoline and nails parked in the center of London, and two men crashed a Jeep Cherokee into the glass doors of Terminal One at Glasgow Airport. The vehicle failed to penetrate the doors, but the driver poured gasoline over himself and the Jeep, and the Jeep blazed. The throng of travelers in the terminal stampeded away from the inferno, and the flaming driver staggered out of the Jeep, threw punches, and shouted, “Allah, Allah.” The crowd of travelers in the terminal stampeded away from the fireball. Stephen Clarkson, a bystander, pounced on the burning man. “I managed to knock the fellow to the ground,” said Clarkson. “His clothes had partially burned from his body. His hair was on fire. His whole body was on fire.” Police arrested the charred driver and the unscathed passenger. The discovery of a suspicious device on the driver’s person resulted in the evacuation of the hospital where his burns were being treated, and authorities blew up a suspicious car in the hospital parking lot. Detectives blamed an eight-person Al Qaeda cell controlled by someone they called “Mr. Big” and commenced raids. Three suspected collaborators of the would-be suicide bombers, including a 27-year-old woman, were apprehended.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| May 23, 2007 | - A South London artist planned to protest the royal family's treatment of animals by eating a corgi.
| Source:
Ananova
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| May 21, 2007 | - The 138-year-old tea clipper Cutty Sark burned in London.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 28, 2007 | - Sony apologized and admitted that it might have been “inappropriate” to promote a new videogame based on Greek mythology by holding a launch party in London featuring topless serving girls and guests eating offal from the stomach of a decapitated goat.
| Source:
thisislondon.co.uk
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| April 24, 2007 | - A man dining at the London restaurant “Zizzi” amputated his penis with a kitchen knife.
| Source:
BBC
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| January 26, 2007 | -
North Korea
demanded 44 million euros from
the insurance company Lloyd's
of London as compensation for damages in
an alleged catastrophic helicopter accident in April 2005. According
to their filed claim, a helicopter owned by the state airline was
flying from Pyongyang to a remote island to save a woman who was in
labor with triplets when it crashed into a warehouse full of
humanitarian-relief supplies, causing a fire. “All this business
about spending their money on
their nuclear program,” said a source
close to the North Koreans, “is
complete
tosh.”
| Source:
London
Times
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| January 15, 2007 | -
Scientists in London were working on a gum that suppresses appetite and fights obesity. “Obese people like chewing,” explained a researcher.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
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| November 25, 2006 | - In London, Col. Alexander Litvinenko, an ex-KGB agent, died several weeks after being poisoned with polonium 210, a rare isotope that is used in nuclear bombs and moon buggies. Investigators fear that Litvinenko, who accused Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of ordering his assassination, may have spread radiation to his wife and son as they hugged and kissed him on his deathbed.
| Source 1:
Sky News
Source 2:
Sun (U.K.)
Source 3:
Daily Mail
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| October 26, 2006 | - A pelican attacked and ate a pigeon in London's St. James's park.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 2, 2006 | - The London School of Economics determined that good-looking couples are 36 percent more likely than their ugly counterparts to have female
offspring.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| June 20, 2006 | - Four men suspected of aiding a Canadian terrorist cell were arrested in London,.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
BBC
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| June 19, 2006 | -
London's mayor cracked down on a “radical” pigeon-feeding “splinter group” in Trafalgar Square.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| April 18, 2006 | - The New York
Stock Exchange was considering a merger with the London Stock Exchange.
| Source:
Reuters UK
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| April 14, 2006 | - In London, a woman's skeletal remains were found two years after her death, propped in front of a still-on TV. “I did notice a kind of rotten smell,” said a neighbor, “but the bins downstairs are strong and the stairwells smell with junkies.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 4, 2006 | - Doctors in London reported that a man who has taken 40,000 doses of Ecstasy was having trouble with his short-term memory.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| March 16, 2006 | -
UNESCO met to discuss how to preserve world heritage sites, like the Tower of London and the Great Barrier Reef, from the effects of global warming; the United States said that the organization had no brief to discuss an unproven theory.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 24, 2006 | - The mayor of London was suspended for four weeks with full pay for saying to a Jewish journalist: "You are just like a concentration-camp guard."
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 19, 2006 | - Riots over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad continued around the world. In Nigeria 16 people were killed in rioting and 11 churches were burned; in Libya at least 10 people were killed; and in Pakistan at least 5 people were killed. In Volgograd, Russia, officials closed the city newspaper after it published a cartoon that showed Muhammad, Jesus, Moses, and Buddha watching TV together. Fifteen thousand people protested the cartoons in London. “We have to speak up,” said a Muslim demonstrator, “to prevent something like the Holocaust from happening.”
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
The New York Times
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
| Source 1:
Arab News
Source 2:
Al Jazeera
Source 3:
BBC News
Source 4:
Channel 4
Source 5:
ReviewJournal.com
Source 6:
CBC News
Source 7:
Al Jazeera
Source 8:
ABC News Online
Source 9:
Bloomberg News
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| February 3, 2006 | - Professor Philippe Sands of University College, London, said he had seen a secret memo that details a January 2003 meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush. According to Sands' account of the memo, Blair offered Bush full British support for an invasion of Iraq regardless of whether U.N. inspectors found evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Bush also told Blair that he was thinking of having U-2 reconnaissance planes painted with U.N. colors and then flown over Iraq in order to provoke Saddam Hussein into firing upon the planes.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| January 21, 2006 | - In London a northern bottlenosed whale swam up the Thames, sparking a massive rescue effort before the whale died.
| Source:
BBC News
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| January 18, 2006 | -
Scientists in London found more evidence of a link between the parasite Toxoplasma gondii in cat feces and the development of schizophrenia in rats.
| Source:
Imperial College London
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| December 24, 2005 | - 4,000 London
Tube workers voted to hold a 24-hour walkout on December 31.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 23, 2005 | - A senior member of the International Olympic Committee revealed that London probably only won the right to host the Olympics in 2012 because of a voting error.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 18, 2005 | - North of London, thieves used a crane to steal a two-ton Henry Moore sculpture, “Reclining Figure,” that was valued at more than $5 million; authorities fear the thieves may melt it down for scrap metal.
| Source:
AP
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| November 30, 2005 | -
Scientists in London were planning to insert nose cells into damaged human spines in the hope that the cells will stimulate the growth of nerve fibers.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| November 24, 2005 | - A London man was stabbed to death by someone in a Santa hat and beard.
| Source:
BBC News
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| October 10, 2005 | -
Londoners were concerned about crack-addicted
squirrels.
| Source:
The Register
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| August 16, 2005 | - Secret documents revealed that Jean Charles De Menezes, the Brazilian electrician shot and killed as a terrorist by police on a London train, was not carrying any bags, was not wearing a bulky winter coat, and did not jump any turnstiles. He was, however, still shot seven times in the head.
| Source:
ITN
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| July 31, 2005 | -
British police had arrested nineteen people believed to be connected to the London bombings.
| Source:
BBC News
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| July 24, 2005 | - A suspicious package in Little Wormwood Scrubs was detonated safely.
| Source:
BBC News
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| July 22, 2005 | - Around twenty London police officers chased a Brazilian electrician named Jean Charles de Menezes onto a train and shot him dead, thinking he was a terrorist.
| Source:
BBC News
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| July 22, 2005 | - A Muslim cleric in London said that bomb attacks would continue.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 21, 2005 | - More bombs went off in London's public-transport system, but only the detonators of the bombs exploded. There was one injury.
| Source:
BBC News
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| July 11, 2005 | -
Terrorists set off bombs on three trains and a bus in London, killing fifty-two people, despite the fact that in 2003 Dick Cheney said that “our military is confronting the terrorists, along with our allies, in Iraq and Afghanistan so that innocent civilians will not have to confront terrorist violence in Washington or London or anywhere else in the world.”
| Source 1:
The Scotsman
Source 2:
The White House
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| July 8, 2005 | -
London began to scan the bodies of tube passengers.
| Source:
Times Online
|
| July 8, 2005 | - Several London hotels increased their rates in response to the bombings.
| Source:
BBC News
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| July 8, 2005 | -
British MP George Galloway said that “London has reaped the involvement of Mr. Blair's involvement in Iraq.”
| Source:
Democracy Now!
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| June 17, 2005 | - A report prepared for the London Metropolitan Police Service expressed concern that young African boys were being sacrificed in England.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| June 10, 2005 | - Two crows attacked a jogger in London, drawing blood.
| Source:
This is London
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| May 28, 2005 | - In London, Big Ben broke down for ninety minutes.
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 15, 2005 | - A London grandmother coldcocked a burglar with a garden gnome.
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| March 18, 2005 | - A woman in Zimbabwe testified that she had paid an advisor $5,000 to fly four invisible mermaids, named Emma, Charmaine, Sharvine, and Bella, from London to Zimbabwe.
| Source:
Boston.com
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| February 11, 2005 | -
Anti-Semitism was on the rise in London; there were complaints of arson, beatings, and the mailing of a snuffbox filled with excrement.
| Source:
The Independent
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| December 24, 2004 | - A mentally ill man went on a stabbing rampage in London, killing one and injuring five.
| Source:
Guardian
|
| December 23, 2004 | -
Tony Blair toured the Middle East, and called for a peace summit in London. The United States and Israel both told him to cut it out.
| Source:
Scotsman.com
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