A UK court will on Tuesday consider contentious plans to extend a scheme obliging the most polluting vehicles to pay for using London's roads, as opponents engage in protests -- and even sabotage.The High Court case comes just weeks before London May...

Slow-moving climate protesters have become a daily sight on London's streets, undeterred by the honking horns of irate motorists, personal insults and even arrest."No more extraction of fossil fuels," Peter Lippiett shouts through a loudspeaker over...

By AFPThe Church of England will not change its rules to allow priests to marry same-sex couples following five years of internal debate on the issue, it announced on Wednesday."Under the proposals, same-sex couples would still not be able to get mar...

By AFPWhen short seller Matthew Earl anonymously co-authored a report detailing explosive allegations of wrongdoing at German fintech champion Wirecard, his life was turned upside down.Within months of the research's publication in 2016, the London-b...

An Iranian filmmaker said the Islamic republic barred him from travelling to the London Film Festival over his support for the protest movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini that he called a "great moment in history"."I was prevented by the Ira...

Two police officers were stabbed early Friday in central London and hospitalised after encountering "a male with a knife", the capital's police said, amid massive security ahead of the queen's funeral.A suspect who was tasered and arrested on suspici...

Public transport workers in London held fresh strikes Friday over pay and conditions, cutting services on almost all underground and overground rail lines that link up the UK capital.The latest walkout comes during a summer of industrial action acros...