The security minister, Ben Wallace, has said he would not put officials’ lives at risk to rescue UK citizens who went to Syria and Iraq to join Islamic State, insisting “actions have consequences”. “I’m not putting at risk British people’s lives to...
Michelle Obama has said one of the reasons she supported Barack Obama's decision to run for president in 2008 was because 'deep down, I was like, there's no way he's going to win'. During a discussion about her memoir, Becoming, in Royal Festival...
A murder investigation has been launched after a man in his 20s was fatally stabbed in Shoreditch, east London. The incident, which happened in the early hours on Saturday, is the latest in the wave of knife crime in the city. London is on course fo...
Ministers have ordered a comprehensive analysis of the soil around Grenfell Tower amid concerns the fire may have led to a large area being contaminated with harmful toxins. The announcement from the government came three weeks after the Guardian re...
A climber known as the 'French Spiderman' has been arrested after scaling one of London's tallest buildings. Alain Robert ascended the 202-metre Salesforce Tower – formerly the Heron Tower – in the City of London without a rope or other safety equip...
The tenant in the flat where the Grenfell Tower fire broke out has said refurbishment of the building degraded the property, creating gaps around his kitchen window and placing gas pipes in corridors. Behailu Kebede, who lived in flat 16 on the four...
A year ago we witnessed Britain’s deadliest fire in living memory. The morning after, we learned that warnings about fire safety from residents had been ignored. Later we heard about the safety failures at national and local level, and companies haw...
A spate of recent suspected murders in London has prompted concerns about rising levels of knife and gun crime in the capital. There have been attempts to place the figures into context, both historically and by comparison with other places, but how...
The government of Ecuador has confirmed that it has cut off internet access in its embassy in London to Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, saying that he was putting the country’s international relations at risk. In a...
Tougher rules on night flights and keeping costs to passengers down are needed before parliament should approve Heathrow’s third runway, MPs have told the government. The transport select committee said it believed the London hub airport’s expansion...
An advertising campaign from the Normandy government urging British businesses to flee across the Channel to escape Brexit has been banned by Transport for London because it may cause “public controversy or sensitivity”. The adverts urging entrepren...
LONDON — Making a 100-minute function movie is a certainly an enormous sufficient enterprise in itself, however Woody Harrelson is planning to take the problem a step additional — on Jan. 19, he will be capturing and broadcasting a stay 100-minute fu...