The 31-year-old Briton Matthew Hedges has arrived in Great Britain. He landed on Tuesday morning at London's Heathrow airport. The scientist was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates last week because of espionage, but got pardon on Monday.
A woman from London who is looking for a roommate because she can not afford the rent alone, has placed an advertisement with all sorts of bizarre requirements.
The new policy on scooter gangs is going well in London. There, pursuits between police officers and criminals have been much shorter since October. Agents have permission to drive the criminals.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) are turning to a leniency request for the life-condemned Briton Matthew Hedges. This is reported by the UAE ambassador to Great Britain, who says, according to British media, that they have good hope that a 'fair solution'. can be found for the issue.
Matt Hedges knows the United Arab Emirates well. The academic born in South London grew up in Dubai, where he visited a branch of the Cranleigh boarding school. No Eton, but with annual costs of 37,000 pounds nowadays it is not much cheaper either.
London and Brussels have reached an agreement in principle on the political declaration setting out how the future relationship between the EU and the United Kingdom should look after the Brexit. That is what EU President Donald Tusk reports on Twitter.
The British authorities have arrested a 48-year-old man after finding two explosives in an apartment. As far as is known, the suspect has no ties with terrorist organizations, reports the police in the British capital.
Sotheby's auction house in London thinks that two of Rembrandt's fingerprints were found on an oil painting that made the master of a young man. It seems to be printing his thumb. They were found in the original coat of paint, in a lower corner of the painting, under overcoating and varnish layers.
A British man who profited from the disastrous fire in the London Grenfell tower was sentenced to six years in prison. 38-year-old Sharife Elouahabi lied that family members were killed in the flat and managed to lay their hands on money that was meant for real victims, reports British media.
London has after four years put a line under a headache file around three unusable water throwers. They had been purchased and refurbished by order of former mayor Boris Johnson, but were not allowed to be deployed. The cars are now sold as old iron.
Germany has imposed an entry ban on eighteen Saudi's. They are suspected of having been involved in the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist lived and worked in the US and was very critical of the Saud family clan that rules Saudi Arabia.
The British police have arrested seventy people on Saturday at a protest in London. Demonstrators took to the streets out of dissatisfaction with the climate policy pursued by the British government. The activists also want a reduction in greenhouse gases.
Thieves have stolen a large gorilla statue from a luxury hotel in London. The two perpetrators unscrewed the image under the nose of a witness. They then switched on helpful construction workers to get the picture down, says the owner of the hotel against British media.
The EU and the United Kingdom have agreed on the conditions for the departure of the British from the EU. The European Commission has released the text of the 585-page agreement in principle, immediately after Prime Minister Theresa May in London announced that her cabinet is supporting the preliminary agreement and a declaration on the future relationship.
Never again Dire Straits for Mark Knopfler, now knows every fan of the British super group. Solo, however, the 69-year-old Briton does not know how to stop. Following the release of his eighth album Down the road wherever this Friday we were allowed to visit his own London Grove Studios.
An Indian pilot is caught with alcohol one hour before his flight. That was evident from two breath tests that he had to undergo, reports Air India.
The French authorities seized a plane from the budget airline Ryanair at Bordeaux airport. The aircraft was about to leave 149 passengers on board Thursday to London.
Moscow has a square named after former British double-spy Kim Philby. The latter passed to the Soviet Union in 1963 and died in 1988. The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobjanin, has, according to the media, by decree ordered the name change of a crossroads in the southwest of the Russian capital, where the headquarters is also from the foreign intelligence service.
The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, has apologized to all employees for tackling intimidation within the company. 'We recognize that we have not always dealt with it properly in the past and we sincerely regret that. It is clear that we have to make changes ', Pichai wrote in a mail to the staff on Thursday.
Police and fire brigade in London have been plucked in large numbers to the Sony headquarters in the British capital. In the building on Derry Street, a man with a machete would have walked around, injuring at least two people.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has caught a bone in Ecuador. The Australian objected in vain to the tightening of his house rules in the embassy of the South American country in London.
Ecuador will no longer mediate with the British government in favor of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent six years in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. 'We are neither Mr. Assange's lawyers nor representatives of the British government,' Foreign Minister José Valencia told Reuters on Tuesday. 'Ecuador has no responsibility whatsoever to take further steps.'
In the center of London, tens of thousands of people took part in an anti-brexit demonstration on Saturday. The demonstrators want a new referendum about the brexit. According to the British media, the organizers say that as many as 500,000 people took part in the demonstration. Beforehand, they had announced that they expected 100,000 people.
The organizers of an anti-brexit demonstration on Saturday in London expect more than 100,000 worried Britons to respond to their call. The 'People's Vote' campaign demands a second referendum on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Citizens must also be given the right to vote on the final agreement, if it comes.
Banksy wanted to completely destroy his artwork that was recently sold at an auction in London. This appears from a video that the artist has placed on his website.
Working in the City of London demands the utmost of people- trainees at a law firm have again experienced last week. Their boss sent them an e-mail on Friday at a quarter to five with the question if they could work through the night. Those who refused, had to provide 'proof' to legitimize the failure.
The EU needs more time to reach an agreement on the Brexit with the United Kingdom. 'In the coming weeks, we will take a calm and serious time to achieve the decisive progress we need in the negotiations,' said EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier on arrival in Luxembourg. There he talks to the EU ministers about the developments in the approaching separation of the British.
The Chinese brand Huawei has not been a small player for a long time. Last week, Bloomberg Intelligence even reported that the brand in the home country had overtaken Apple. Yesterday, Richard Yu presented the Mate 20 Series smartphones and a new smartwatch at the London ExCel Arena. Both with impressive and striking specifications and possibilities.
Ecuador has devised new house rules for Julian Assange, who has been living in the embassy of the country in London for six years. If the WikiLeaks founder does not comply with these guidelines, this may result in his diplomatic asylum being withdrawn.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who hides in the London embassy of Ecuador, may have a little more contact with the outside world. Assange has not been able to call and use the internet in recent months, but according to WikiLeaks these restrictions are relaxed.
