More than 300 people were evacuated overnight after a huge fire broke out next to several blocks of flats in London, emergency services ...
A look at online startup firms seeking to challenge traditional mutual funds Covestor Investment Management and kaChing are online ventures that seek to ...
Climate change will imperil health through malaria, cholera, heatwaves and hunger, but many problems can be eased or avoided if countries make wise policy choices, doctors said on Wednesday. In a series of papers issued ahead of the UN climate conference in ...
Gold production will continue to fall, despite a brief boost in 2009 and soaring prices, as deposits are exhausted and new discoveries remain elusive, say miners. In terms of production, "2009 is the outlier as far as the trend," Omar Jabara, spokesman ...
King Kong figurine used to create 1930s movie monster grabs $200,000 in London sale The tiny King Kong figurine that helped launch the career of one of cinema's biggest monsters has sold for about 121,000 pounds ($200,000) at a London auction. Auctioneer ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The British Library is re-housing part of its collection in a new facility that will hand responsibility for the storage and retrieval of seven million items to a robotic crane rather than a librarian. The 30-million pound climate-controlled ...
Ian McKellen, Rachel Weisz honored at London's Evening Standard Theater Awards Rachel Weisz took top acting honors and Ian McKellen was recognized for a half-century in the theater Monday at London's Evening Standard Theater Awards. Weisz won the acting prize for playing ...
AC/DC, Miles Davis kick off box set season; also releases from Michael Jackson, Def Jam, more Here are a selection of box-set offerings this season: AC/DC "Backtracks" (Sony) The essence of a box set is great packaging, lots of swag and hard-to-find ...
Charlie Chaplin museum planned at screen legend's last home in Switzerland Charlie Chaplin's last home in Switzerland will be turned into a permanent place of pilgrimage for fans of the actor who immortalized the "Little Tramp," one of his sons said Monday. ...
Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, best known for winning the British version of television show Celebrity Big Brother, married in a lavish ceremony in western India on Sunday. Shetty, 34, wed London-based businessman Raj Kundra in Khandala, a hill resort near Mumbai, with ...
Brad Pitt arriving at LAX airport on a flight from London Los Angeles, California - 19.11.09 Copyright 2009 WENN
The Spanish trawler Alakrana and its crew of 36 docked safely in the Seychelles on Friday, three days after being released by the Somali pirates who captured them six weeks earlier. "We are all very relieved to be back... We cannot say ...
