Great Britain Basketball edge closer to securing London 2012 Olympics place - 9/30/1431 01:25

Application for GB to host the 2015 EuroBasket event could be final hurdle in bid to guarantee London 2012 spot. >>>

Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go" to open London film festival  - 9/30/1431 09:49

LONDON (Reuters) - British talent and some extraordinary feats of digital restoration are just a few of the highlights promised for this year's BFI London Film Festival, due to run from 13th to 28th October. >>>

Swimmer remembers a frugal London Olympics - 9/30/1431 08:36

The last time London hosted an Olympic Games, in 1948, London was still recovering from bomb damage, the British people were living on rations and the Games, contested by amateurs, were put together on a budget of £730,000. >>>

Youth Olympics: Jones 'excited' by tae kwon do gold - 9/30/1431 07:16

Jade Jones became Britain's first medallist at the inaugural Youth Olympics yesterday. The 17-year-old overcame Vietnam's Than Thao Nguyen in a sudden-death play-off to capture gold in the women's 55kg category in Singapore after the pair were locked at 6-6 following three dramatic rounds of tae kwon do. >>>

Archaeologists dig up 200-year-old skeleton of London's Moby Dick - 10/1/1431 12:38

Remarkable discoveries on the River Thames foreshore at Greenwich indicate that London was the final resting place, some two centuries ago, of a giant whale the size of the legendary Moby Dick. >>>

Planes in 'near-miss' over London - 10/1/1431 12:36

A business jet and a passenger plane carrying 232 people came close to a mid-air collision over London in July, a report reveals. >>>

London's The xx take Mercury Music Prize - 9/30/1431 07:50

The xx beat late favourite Paul Weller to win this year's Mercury Prize for their debut album xx. >>>

Capello will quit after Euro 2012 - 10/1/1431 04:24

England manager Fabio Capello will quit as national coach after Euro 2012 to enjoy "life as a pensioner", the Italian has confirmed. >>>

Deathtrap, Noël Coward Theatre, London - 10/1/1431 03:48

I like to think that I would walk through fire to watch Simon Russell Beale recite the Argos catalogue. All the same, I did wonder how desperate I was to see him in this revival of Ira Levin's 1978 mega-hit, Deathtrap. But even if you're the kind of person for whom the term "comedy thriller" normally has all the appeal of, say, "morris dancing" or "make-over programme", you'll still find much to enjoy in Matthew Warchus's well-judged, witty production, which expertly balances the teasing tension and the arch, tongue-in-cheek humour. >>>

Scorched, Old Vic Tunnels, London - 10/1/1431 03:02

Like siblings of Oedipus, the Lebanese twins Janine and Simon – she's a maths teacher, he's a boxer – set out to discover the truth of their own origins, and the story of their dead mother, Nawal, in the aftermath of civil war and a criminal trial. >>>