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The London Stock Exchange has become a credible takeover target as it faces a battle to merge with its Toronto counterpart and after NYSE...

Banned Pakistan cricketers Mohammad Aamir and Mohammad Asif left for London on Tuesday morning to appear for their case before the Crown Prosecution Service....

British premier David Cameron on Thursday invited Libya’s rebels to open an office in London, their first in a foreign country, in a highly...

The National Union of Pakistani Students and Alumni (NUPSA)’s UK chapter held an annual general meeting (AGM) at Queen Mary, University of London on...

The 52 victims of the July 7, 2005 London bombings were unlawfully killed, a coroner ruled Friday following exhaustive inquests into the Al-Qaeda-inspired atrocity....

England and Essex batsman Alastair Cook has been given the Freedom of the City of London following his performances during England’s Ashes win. The...

LONDON - London Stock Exchange (LSE) has welcomed Oracle Coalfields, the first Pakistan-focused company, to join its Alternative Investment Market (AIM). The company has raised an additional three million pounds and is being admitted to AIM with a market capitalisation of approximately 25 million pounds. Incorporated in the UK, Oracle will be the first company with a major coal mining project in Pakistan to join AIM. The Company de-listed from PLUS at the close of business on Tuesday.

LAHORE - Women who did not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and even death by Islamist extremists intent on imposing Sharia law on parts of Britain, it was claimed on Sunday, according to the Daily Mail, a British newspaper.
The newspaper said other targets of the "Talibanesque thugs," being investigated by the police in the Tower Hamlets area of London, included homosexuals, and stickers had been plastered on public walls stating: "Gay free zone. Verily Allah

VIENNA - Ethiopia's marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie hopes to win a gold medal still missing in his trophy cabinet at next year's London Olympics, despite his recent retirement announcement.
"I want to win Olympic gold in the marathon in London in 2012," the 37-year-old Ethiopian said in comments posted on the website of the Vienna marathon, in which he will run on Sunday. Speaking at a press conference Friday ahead of the event, he explained his decision to return

LONDON - The hockey competition at the next year's London Olympics will be played on blue plastic pitches, the organisers have announced. The decision by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympics Games (LOCOG) was taken to change the traditional green pitches for blue to make the contrast between the pitch and ball greater, meaning that it will be easier to see the ball. The pitch run off areas will be pink. Hockey will have more than 380 competitors representing

ANN ARBOR - The latest step on Michael Phelps' road to the London Olympics brings the US Olympic swimming star back to familiar territory for the Eric Namesnik Michigan Grand Prix. Phelps lived and trained in Ann Arbor prior to his unprecedented achievement at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he claimed eight gold medals to take his career tally to 14.
With the swimming World Championships in Shanghai looming later this year and the 2012 Olympics in London beckoning, Phelps was

ISLAMABAD - Haider Gilani, the youngest son of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, will undergo a surgery today (Thursday) at a local hospital in London for removal of a cyst from his liver. Meanwhile, Gilani left for London on a three-day private visit to stay with his ailing son.
A family source disclosed that the doctors had discovered a cyst in Haider''s liver on March 25, following which the surgery was scheduled to be conducted on 30th. However, the operation was deferred

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday left here for London on a four-day private visit. The Prime Minister is visiting London to see his ailing son who is likely to undergo surgery.

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will embark upon a private visit to the UK after chairing the federal cabinet meeting today (Wednesday). He would fly to London to inquire after the health of his ailing son, Haider Gilani, who may undergo surgery for hepatic cyst.
During his stay in London, which is known for behind-the-scene political manoeuvrings, Gilani is likely to call on PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif to inquire about his health.
The possible meeting between the

LONDON - Movie stars, singers and politicians will turn out on Wednesday for a gala concert in London to honor former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this month.
The glitzy red carpet affair, co-hosted by U.S. actors Kevin Spacey and Sharon Stone, underlines the celebrity status Gorbachev enjoys in the West, where he is widely perceived as the man who freed Eastern Europe from Soviet rule and ended a Cold War nuclear standoff.

LONDON - Tens of thousands of Britons opposed to government austerity cuts were expected to join the biggest rally in the capital since protests against war in Iraq in 2003. Union leaders say more than 200,000 people angry at deep public spending cuts, rising unemployment, tax rises and pension reforms could join the demonstration on Saturday. Police fear simmering resentment could lead to a repeat of violence seen last December when student protests against higher university tuition

LAHORE - Banned Pakistani cricketer Salman Butt reached London on Tuesday to face the corruption charges leveled against him by the Scotland Yard, while Mohammad Amir is waiting for his visa documents. It will be their first appearance before a magistrate's court there on Thursday to face corruption charges in connection with the spot-fixing scandal last year.
Butt left for London on Tuesday morning while Amir will do so tomorrow after getting his visa. Fast bowler Muhammad Asif,