London Informer

London's Olympic Park to host professional boxing LONDON (AP) — London's Olympic Park will stage professional boxing in September at the Copper Box Arena, a venue that hosted handball and fencing in the modern pentathlon during last year's games. A multi-fight agreement was struck Monday for Sept. Full News here – Read more on SI.com

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G8 urged to act on hunger after 45000 gather in London's Hyde Park A colourful installation of thousands of plastic flowers, the petals of which represented the millions of children who die each year as a result of malnutrition, was the focal point of a rally held in London on Saturday to urge action on [...]

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Beauty of bus depots: The Design Museum celebrates London's overlooked … Some of Britain's top architecture experts have nominated their London favourites, from the filigree ironwork at South Kensington Tube station to the six-mile subterranean Post Office Railway and the concrete diamond exoskeleton of Welbeck Street car … Full News here – Read more on [...]

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Syrian hackers compromise London's Financial Times blogs, Twitter feeds LONDON – A clutch of blogs and Twitter accounts maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which often attacks media organizations it sees … Full News here – Read [...]

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RBC inspires with rooftop garden spot at London's Chelsea Flower Show The Chelsea Flower Show (which runs May 21-25) in London, England, is celebrating its centennial this year. Members of the royal family will be in attendance on opening day, as usual. Also back this year are two of the original 1913 exhibiting firms, … [...]

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London's top menswear designers on why wool is the way forward for winter Whether you more interested in the standout suits on show at the Savile Row presentation or the knitwear presented by East London's up-and-comers, Merino wool featured heavily across the cold weather collections at LC:M in January. If you needed any … Full [...]

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London's British Asians look to Bollywood As Bollywood celebrates its centenary, London's Asians are looking to India's film industry to make their dreams a reality. One hundred years ago Bollywood's first feature film, Raja Harishchandra, was released in Mumbai. The industry has been … Full News here – Read more on BBC News

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London's underground food scene: Where to eat now Over two balmy days in a formerly dingy East London back alley last summer, eight of the city's best bars competed to make the best gin and rum cocktails the city had ever tasted. The Twitter-driven events – Ginstock and Rumstock – attracted several … Full News [...]

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London's dash to 'toilet restaurants' When the first toilet-themed restaurant, Modern Toilet, opened in Taipei in 2004, public reaction was mixed. Was it weird, funny or just plain unsavory? Whatever the answer, the concept's popularity quickly became obvious — the chain now has … Full News here – Read more on CNN International

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U.K. House Prices Reach Five-Year High as London's Lead Widens Excluding London from the annual house-price increase of 3 percent would leave the average rise nationally at 0.5 percent, LSL and Acadametrics said. The 2.5 percentage-point divergence is the largest recorded since they began monitoring this effect in … Full News here – Read more [...]

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London's Best and Most Secretive Address Photographers have found themselves escorted from the premises, London's oldest block of flats and one of its most exclusive addresses, for snapping off a frame of the interior courtyard. Residents who are deemed indiscreet risk a ritual scourging by … Full News here – Read more on New York [...]

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Frank Ocean adds second date at London's O2 Academy Brixton The singer, who released the critically acclaimed album 'Channel Orange' in 2012, will headline Brixton Academy on July 9 and 10. The two dates mark Ocean's biggest European show to date and his first London gig since he performed at east London … Full News [...]

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HOW LONDON'S 9.6% COMPARES I am concerned about what London will look like five years from now.” — Martha Powell, director, London Community Foundation, which in October reported local youth unemployment was 18.7%. "We need to keep pressing forward with the plan we have and … Full News here – Read more on London Free [...]

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London's moment: the tech cluster in the east of Britain's capital is on a roll "Less than 25 years old, [the web] is already a platform for more than eight per cent of UK GDP," marvelled Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt last spring in a speech at London's Science Museum. "Congratulations, and by the way [...]

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Bargain Hunter: Where Are London's Cheapest Homes? The job market's collapsed, the middle's getting squeezed, and the economy's as flat as a pancake that's been through a mangle – yet London's house prices remain buoyant. Five years into something that looks a lot like a depression, a medium-sized … Full News here – Read more [...]

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