http://www.mail.com/locations/62-london.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/62-london.html http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2103232-uk-official-london-attack-terror-related.html LONDON (AP) — Two men attacked another man near a London military barracks Wednesday, in what British authorities were investigating as a possible terror act. One man is dead and two others were injured. While details were scant, Prime Minister David Cameron called the killing "truly shocking" and said he had asked Home Secretary Theresa May to call an ur... Wed, 22 May 2013 18:05:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2103232-uk-official-london-attack-terror-related.html 2013-05-22T18:05:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2102616-uk-denmark-eye-visas-afghan-interpreters.html LONDON (AP) — Britain and Denmark proposed Wednesday to give hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside their troops the right to settle in the U.K. and Denmark in recognition of the risks they face if they stay in their war-battered homeland. The plans were welcomed by activists in Britain who had argued the U.K. was turning its back on Afghan ... Wed, 22 May 2013 15:28:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2102616-uk-denmark-eye-visas-afghan-interpreters.html 2013-05-22T15:28:45Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2102426-irishman-charged-with-1982-ira-hyde-park-bombing.html DUBLIN (AP) — British prosecutors have charged a 61-year-old Irishman with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen's cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike at a top London tourist attraction that killed four soldiers and seven horses. The Crown Prosecution Service said John Downey was arrested Sunday at Gatwick Airport south of London. He was arrai... Wed, 22 May 2013 14:36:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2102426-irishman-charged-with-1982-ira-hyde-park-bombing.html 2013-05-22T14:36:30Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2100268-prince-william-joins-father-conservation-plea.html LONDON (AP) — Britain's Prince William has joined his father Prince Charles in urging global action to tackle the illegal poaching of wild animals. William told a conservation conference at London's St. James's Palace that he is calling on his charity, the Royal Foundation, to engage young people in the cause. The conference brings together policy makers ... Tue, 21 May 2013 15:52:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2100268-prince-william-joins-father-conservation-plea.html 2013-05-21T15:52:05Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2093320-the-audience-to-nj-nursing.html NEW YORK (AP) — A special audience will get to see Helen Mirren onstage next month in London in the play "The Audience" — some retired show business veterans in a New Jersey nursing home. The live cinema event company BY Experience said Friday it will show a live performance of Peter Morgan's play with residents of the The Lillian Booth Actors Home in New... Fri, 17 May 2013 20:21:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2093320-the-audience-to-nj-nursing.html 2013-05-17T20:21:50Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2092974-george-michael-injured-car-crash.html LONDON (AP) — George Michael was being treated at a hospital Friday for what his publicist called minor injuries after being a passenger in a car crash near London. A statement released Friday said the singer was in an accident on Thursday night and suffered "superficial cuts and bruises." The statement from publicist Connie Filippello said no other vehic... Fri, 17 May 2013 15:17:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2092974-george-michael-injured-car-crash.html 2013-05-17T15:17:07Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2091086-exit-becks-david-beckham-retiring-seasons.html LONDON (AP) — End it like Beckham. David Beckham, whose curling free kicks, rugged good looks and celebrity marriage made him one of the most famous athletes in the world, is retiring from soccer. Whether striding on the grass, the red carpet or the fashion catwalks, Beckham transcended his sport and became its highest-paid player, with a fortune estimate... Fri, 17 May 2013 07:22:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2091086-exit-becks-david-beckham-retiring-seasons.html 2013-05-17T07:22:19Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2090100-lawmakers-accuse-google-dishonesty-taxes.html LONDON (AP) — U.K. lawmakers subjected search giant Google to blistering criticism Thursday, accusing the U.S. Internet company of playing games with Britain's tax rules to avoid paying what it owed. In his second appearance before Parliament in roughly six months, Google Vice President Matt Brittin tried to defend his company's complex corporate structur... Thu, 16 May 2013 16:04:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2090100-lawmakers-accuse-google-dishonesty-taxes.html 2013-05-16T16:04:36Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2087020-uk-casino-accuses-us-poker-star-ivey-cheating.html LONDON (AP) — A major casino operator is accusing Phil Ivey, an American who is one of the world's top professional poker players, of amassing millions of dollars in winnings by cheating at baccarat. Court papers filed in Britain's High Court by the Malaysia-based Genting Group say that Ivey and an accomplice successfully used a scam to rack up winnings o... Wed, 15 May 2013 18:01:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2087020-uk-casino-accuses-us-poker-star-ivey-cheating.html 2013-05-15T18:01:02Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2084976-uk-7-men-convicted-sex-crimes-girls.html LONDON (AP) — Seven men were convicted in London on Tuesday for sexually abusing underage girls, including one who was just 11, by plying them with alcohol and drugs before forcing them to commit sex acts. The guilty verdict followed five months of testimony indicating the pedophile sex ring exploited girls between 2004 and 2012 in the Oxford area, some 6... Tue, 14 May 2013 18:37:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2084976-uk-7-men-convicted-sex-crimes-girls.html 2013-05-14T18:37:19Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2083588-royal-infant-way-housing-unclear.html LONDON (AP) — Is it a boy? A girl? Prince William and the former Kate Middleton aren't telling, and palace officials are not revealing where the royal baby will spend its first few months, since renovation of their future home at Kensington Palace is taking longer than expected. William's tour of duty as a search-and-rescue pilot in Wales is scheduled to ... Tue, 14 May 2013 13:40:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2083588-royal-infant-way-housing-unclear.html 2013-05-14T13:40:44Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2079992-israeli-pm-criticized-installing-bed-plane.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek alternate sleeping arrangements when traveling after receiving a sky-high bill for installing a customized bed on a recent flight to London, officials close to the Israeli leader said. Netanyahu found himself facing a public uproar on Sunday after Channel 10 TV reported over the weekend that he ... Sun, 12 May 2013 21:43:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2079992-israeli-pm-criticized-installing-bed-plane.html 2013-05-12T21:43:50Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2080294-banksy-graffiti-will-up-sale-london.html LONDON (AP) — An artwork by secretive graffiti artist Banksy that sparked controversy when it disappeared from the side of a north London store has been put up for sale in the U.K., months after it was yanked from the block in Miami. The stencil of a young boy sewing Union Jack bunting vanished in February, upsetting art lovers in the gritty Turnpike Lane... Sun, 12 May 2013 16:35:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2080294-banksy-graffiti-will-up-sale-london.html 2013-05-12T16:35:44Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2075974-1969-hendrix-telegram-paul-to-play.html LONDON (AP) — Miles and Jimi. Jimi and Miles. Fans of the late trumpet and guitar masters have long known that Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix had been making plans to record together in the year before Hendrix's sudden death in 1970. But less attention has been paid to the bass player they were trying to recruit: Paul McCartney, who was busy with another ba... Fri, 10 May 2013 11:55:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2075974-1969-hendrix-telegram-paul-to-play.html 2013-05-10T11:55:47Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2076234-london-zoo-seeks-female-mate-near-extinct-fish.html LONDON (AP) — The London Zoo is urgently seeking a female mate for the last-known males of a critically endangered fish species. Zoo officials say the Mangarahara cichlid is thought to be extinct in the wild and that two of the last known individuals — both male — are in the zoo's aquarium. A third is in the Berlin zoo. Officials say the species' habitat ... Fri, 10 May 2013 10:23:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2076234-london-zoo-seeks-female-mate-near-extinct-fish.html 2013-05-10T10:23:52Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2071888-handwritten-poem-larkin-sells-11650.html LONDON (AP) — A handwritten poem by Philip Larkin has sold for 7,500 pounds (US$11,650) in London. Titled "Love," it was written in 1962 on a sheet of paper apparently torn from a notebook. Its first lines read: "The difficult part of love/ Is being selfish enough,/ Is having the blind persistence/ To upset an existence/ Just for your own sake." ... Wed, 08 May 2013 17:48:23 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2071888-handwritten-poem-larkin-sells-11650.html 2013-05-08T17:48:23Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2071552-uk-beatles-let-be-to-hit-broadway.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Beatles are coming back to Broadway. Two years after a Fab Four cover band arrived on the Great White Way, the London hit "Let It Be" plans to arrive this summer with new guys playing John, Paul, George and Ringo. Producers said Wednesday "Let It Be" will feature 40 songs including "Twist and Shout," ''She Loves You" ''Yesterday," ''He... Wed, 08 May 2013 15:34:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2071552-uk-beatles-let-be-to-hit-broadway.html 2013-05-08T15:34:38Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2068982-special-effects-master-ray-harryhausen-dies-92.html LONDON (AP) — When Ray Harryhausen was 13, he was so overwhelmed by "King Kong" that he vowed he would create otherworldly creatures on film. He fulfilled his desire as an adult, thrilling audiences with skeletons in a sword fight, a gigantic octopus destroying the Golden Gate Bridge, and a six-armed dancing goddess. On Tuesday, Harryhausen died at London... Tue, 07 May 2013 21:55:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2068982-special-effects-master-ray-harryhausen-dies-92.html 2013-05-07T21:55:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2068002-intl-donors-pledge-300-million-plus-somalia.html LONDON (AP) — International donors heeded warnings about the need for increased support for Somalia by pledging more than $300 million Tuesday toward bolstering security, justice and financial institutions in the conflict-scarred east African nation. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and British Prime Minister David Cameron co-hosted a one-day confer... Tue, 07 May 2013 19:17:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2068002-intl-donors-pledge-300-million-plus-somalia.html 2013-05-07T19:17:59Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2067958-queen-elizabeth-ii-to-commonwealth-meeting.html LONDON (AP) — The 87-year-old Queen Elizabeth II will skip the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Sri Lanka this fall — the first time she's missed the biennial gathering since 1971. The queen has long been a major supporter of the 54-nation Commonwealth. Her decision, announced Tuesday, to send Prince Charles to the Nov. 15-17 meeting in Sri Lan... Tue, 07 May 2013 15:34:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2067958-queen-elizabeth-ii-to-commonwealth-meeting.html 2013-05-07T15:34:51Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2068456-beyonce-reigns-forest-queen-animated-epic.html LONDON (AP) — Beyonce loved voicing Queen Tara in the new children's movie "Epic" — at least once she stopped crying. Queen B has gone from pop royalty to screen royalty, becoming the forest queen in an animated movie that she hopes her 15-month-old daughter Blue Ivy will be proud of one day. The film was her first work since giving birth and she says her... Tue, 07 May 2013 14:29:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2068456-beyonce-reigns-forest-queen-animated-epic.html 2013-05-07T14:29:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2066112-london-hosts-somalia-meeting-to-aid-post-war-gains.html MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's president over the weekend received the country's first pieces of mail in more than two decades. It's the kind of small but hopeful development that leaders meeting in London on Tuesday want to see more of. Britain and Somalia on Tuesday co-host an international donors' conference that aims to provide international supp... Mon, 06 May 2013 15:20:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2066112-london-hosts-somalia-meeting-to-aid-post-war-gains.html 2013-05-06T15:20:28Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2065588-helen-mirren-noisy-drummers-royal-rebuke.html LONDON (AP) — Silence for the queen, please. A troupe of street drummers got a shock when Helen Mirren, dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, emerged from a London theater to berate them for disrupting her show. Mirren is starring in "The Audience," a drama about the weekly meetings between the queen and Britain's prime ministers over her 60-year reign. ... Mon, 06 May 2013 14:29:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2065588-helen-mirren-noisy-drummers-royal-rebuke.html 2013-05-06T14:29:54Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2061038-iaaf-2-turkish-athletes-charged-with-doping.html LONDON (AP) — Olympic 1,500-meter champion Asli Cakir Alptekin of Turkey was charged with doping and could be stripped of her gold medal. Another female Turkish athlete, hurdler Nevin Yanit, also was charged with doping violations and could lose her European indoor title. Alptekin had abnormal blood values in her biological passport, IAAF spokesman Nick D... Fri, 03 May 2013 19:07:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2061038-iaaf-2-turkish-athletes-charged-with-doping.html 2013-05-03T19:07:06Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2060624-german-wwii-bomber-to-salvaged-uk-coast.html LONDON (AP) — A famous German World War II bomber nicknamed "the flying pencil" has spent decades submerged in the English Channel after being shot down in the Battle of Britain. Now, divers are braving dangerous tides to bring it to the surface. British officials on Friday announced a complex salvage operation just off the Kent coast in southeastern Engl... Fri, 03 May 2013 16:14:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2060624-german-wwii-bomber-to-salvaged-uk-coast.html 2013-05-03T16:14:31Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2060632-brookss-ex-bodyguard-charged-uk-hacking-probe.html LONDON (AP) — A man who provided protection for the former chief executive of News International has been charged in relation to Britain's wide-ranging phone-hacking investigation, British authorities said Friday. Scotland Yard said David Johnson, 47, allegedly conspired with Rebekah Brooks and five others in July 2011 to conceal computers and other items... Fri, 03 May 2013 11:37:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2060632-brookss-ex-bodyguard-charged-uk-hacking-probe.html 2013-05-03T11:37:01Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2058736-j-lo-to-beyonce-charity.html LONDON (AP) — Organizers say Jennifer Lopez has joined the lineup of a Beyonce-headlined charity concert in London next month. John Legend, Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding and Florence + the Machine are also due to perform at the "Sound of Change Live" show at Twickenham Stadium on June 1. James Franco, Blake Lively and Jada Pinkett Smith have been lined up as p... Thu, 02 May 2013 16:10:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2058736-j-lo-to-beyonce-charity.html 2013-05-02T16:10:43Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2058256-spice-girls-musical-viva-forever-closing-june.html LONDON (AP) — "Viva Forever"? Not as it turns out. Producers announced Thursday that the Spice Girls musical will close at London's Piccadilly Theater June 29 after a disappointing six-month run. Producer Judy Craymer said despite tweaks since the show opened in December, "we just can't make it work." Written by "Abs... Thu, 02 May 2013 15:55:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2058256-spice-girls-musical-viva-forever-closing-june.html 2013-05-02T15:55:45Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2058440-ferran-adria-brings-elbulli-exhibition-to-london.html LONDON (AP) — You've eaten at the restaurant — or probably you haven't. Now visit the exhibition. Spanish chef Ferran Adria, the man behind the late, lamented elBulli restaurant, is bringing an exhibition dedicated to the art and science of his distinctive brand of molecular gastronomy to London. Diners lucky enough to get reservations at elBulli before i... Thu, 02 May 2013 15:44:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2058440-ferran-adria-brings-elbulli-exhibition-to-london.html 2013-05-02T15:44:37Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2056236-jose-mourinho-headed-to-chelsea.html LONDON (AP) — Real Madrid's Champions League campaign had just ended in defeat when Jose Mourinho spotted an opportunity to send a message. Even though Madrid can still end a mediocre season — mediocre by its high standards, anyway — with the Copa del Rey title, Mourinho is laying the groundwork for a divorce, dropping heavy hints about a return to the En... Wed, 01 May 2013 16:12:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2056236-jose-mourinho-headed-to-chelsea.html 2013-05-01T16:12:36Z