LANGUAGE WARNING: A pensioner who came to the rescue of a young woman that was abused on the London Underground for her choice of dress has become a internet hero.

Upmarket, downmarket, London's got it all. Dana Johannsen finds what she's always wanted at its famed street markets.

Alcohol enters the bloodstream mainly through the lungs but also the eyeballs. Guests are advised to "breathe responsibly."

Food is a family business for an expat pair who headed to Britain to study and found they just couldn't stay away from the kitchen.

A former detective claims UK police covered up a man's confession that he pushed 18 people to their deaths on the London Underground due to fears it would cause panic.

Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, has spoken for the first time about the blood-splattered hate mail her parents received after her ground-breaking birth.

No city does elegance - or afternoon tea - like London, discovers Patricia Greig.

Neither silence, nor the passage of time, can truly heal the wounds that were inflicted in the London bombings a decade ago.

After more than 40 years in London, George Psaradakis can speak English as easily as his native Greek.

Police release aerial footage of deranged cage fighter on rampage after beheading 82-year-old woman and her two cats.

A pregnant London woman who lost her baby in an attack was left lying in the street waiting for an ambulance for more than an hour.

Acclaimed singer and songwriter Van Morrison is joining a select group of music giants with a knighthood to their name.

A spider claimed to be the world's deadliest is feared to be on the loose in Britain after a family spotted a nest in a bunch of bananas.

Kiwi Duncan Smith was a “hard-core regular” at his UK squash club and often played there three or four times a week.

A New Zealand man has died while playing a game of squash in London.

Winston Aldworth pauses to pay his final respects as The Church receives its last rites.

A ginger-haired fanatic wanted to kill Prince Charles in the hope that redhead Prince Harry would become king, a UK court has heard.

A Kiwi professor will deliver a lecture at London's Imperial War Museum today on a flu pandemic that killed more people than the whole of the First World War.

The infamous London institution has become a must-do for Kiwis and Aussies on their OE, but is now calling time.

Relatives have flocked to Kensington Palace to meet the new princess as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge settle in to their new life as a family of four.

David and Victoria Beckham joined the crowds lining the streets of the British capital to cheer on their son Romeo as he took part in the junior version of the London Marathon.

Dramatic images showing the men behind a multimillion-dollar jewellery heist have been uncovered by a British newspaper.

Police have admitted they failed to investigate a burglar alarm that apparently went off during a heist worth up to £200million ($388million) in London.

Sharon Stephenson discovers American air stewardesses know a good thing when they flock to the master of martinis.

Scotland Yard has warned of a growing trend of young women travelling to Syria after launching an urgent appeal to find three teenage schoolgirls.

A video of a woman who appears to tell a passenger that his ancestors "used to be slaves" during an argument on the London Underground is being investigated by police.

A bus travelling through central London has had its roof ripped off after it hit a tree in a "freak accident".

The family of a New Zealand lawyer killed by a falling shop sign in London say his death was "entirely preventable" and called for greater training and for health and safety rules to be enforced.

The British nurse being treated for Ebola is now in a critical condition after her health "gradually deteriorated" in hospital.

Eighty five years ago the carrier that was to become Hawaiian Airlines started commercial flights using a plane dubbed the "ugly duckling".