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Sweden and Ecuador edge closer to end of Julian Assange standoff
Swedish government agrees to direct talks with Ecuador which may lead to WikiLeaks founder being interviewed in London. By David Crouch and Esther Addley.
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'Bin Laden's son Hamza urges terror attack' on London in al-Qaeda message
Al-Qaeda has released a message claiming to show Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza urging terrorist attacks to be carried out in London and in other countries allied to the US. Hamza bin Laden, believed to be in his mid-20s and reportedly known as the ‘crown prince of terror’, has been touted as a future leader of al-Qaeda.
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The Clash - London Calling
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Arup’s Glass sky pool will be suspended ten storeys above London
Developer Ballymore today announced a world’s first - a glass sky pool spanning two apartment blocks in its Nine Elms urban regeneration development next to Battersea Power Station in London.
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How A Philosophy Of "Informed Creativity" Drives Design At Map
"There's a misconception that design is a kind of mythical process," Map's Jon Marshall says.
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The First Assassination of the 21st Century
A former spy's excruciating death by radiation poisoning marked the beginning of an era of high-tech hit men who can kill from anywhere
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Who, What, Why: Why do clocks like Big Ben's run slow?
An on-air mishap on BBC Radio 4's PM revealed the chimes of Big Ben have recently been out by as much as six seconds.
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At this bar, you get tipsy just by breathing
At exactly 3 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, a tall, mustachioed man in a cream tuxedo jacket emerged from a brick building behind London's Borough Market. He greeted the group of 20-somethings that had lined up behind blue velvet ropes and, one-by-one, directed us down into what seemed like a dungeon. Ominous organ music scored our descent, and the spiral staircase was nearly pitch black.
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The Ghosts of Old London
To dispel my disappointment that I cannot rent that Room to Let in Old Aldgate, I find myself returning to scrutinize the collection of pictures taken by the Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London held in the archive at the Bishopsgate Institute. It gives me great pleasure to look closely and see the loaves of bread in the window and read the playbills on the wall in this photograph of a shop in Macclesfield St in 1883.
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London's Walkie Talkie judged UK's worst building
A City of London skyscraper, nicknamed the Walkie Talkie, wins the Carbuncle Cup for the UK's worst new building.
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100 homeless people were given disposable cameras, this is what they shot
Café Art connects people affected by homelessness with the wider community through art, and for its latest project, handed out 100 FujiFilm single-use cameras to people affected by homelessness, asking them to capture simply ‘My London’.
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7th September 1940 - The Blitz begins
300 German bombers raid London, in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. This bombing “blitzkrieg” (lightning war) would continue until May 1941.
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The £14m Chelsea Art House with a Fish Tank Wall Between Dining Room and Loo
A Georgian princess living in London shows you round her home-turned-gallery, in a world where millionaires buy property for the art hanging on the walls
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The Beloved - Time After Time
From the album 'Happiness' (1990)
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The Beloved - The Sun Rising (1989)
From the album 'Happiness'.
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Was Tom Hayes Running the Biggest Financial Conspiracy in History?
On a deserted trading floor, at the Tokyo headquarters of a Swiss bank, Tom Hayes sat rapt before a bank of eight computer screens. Collar askew, pale features pinched, blond hair mussed from a habit of pulling at it when he was deep in thought, the British trader was even more disheveled than usual. It was Sept. 15, 2008, and it looked, he would later recall, like the end of the world.
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Bloodhound car aiming for land speed record unveiled
The design team behind the Bloodhound Super-Sonic Car put its near-complete vehicle on show in London, ahead of an assault on the world land speed record next year.
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These Nazi bombs are more dangerous now than ever before
Thousands of World War II bombs still lurk underground – and they’re even more dangerous now than in the 1940s, making defusing a risky, delicate process. Jon Excell investigates.
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'Cannabis forest' discovered in London
Scores of cannabis plants up to 5ft tall are discovered growing in a remote area of disused land in south-west London.
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Piercy & Co Design A House Behind A Nineteenth Century Stable Wall
Set within the Kew Green Conservation Area of southwest London, the four bedroom family house is formed of two sculptural weathering steel volumes inserted behind a retained nineteenth century stable wall.
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