Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has snapped up an eight-bedroom 17th-century Grade II-listed home in north London.

As the weather begins to warm up, let's relax and fantasize about some of the best pools the world has to offer.

A support group for Kiwis looking to set up shop in London says the English capital still offers ample employment opportunity for those looking in the right places.

Young New Zealander who shared her tale of breaking into the London job market has been overwhelmed by the response - and with offers of work.

Claire Miller, 42, became trapped under the taxi in London's financial district on Tuesday.

Al-Qaeda has released a message, purportedly from Osama bin Laden's son Hamza, calling for attacks on London and other western cities.

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."

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.

Xenia Taliotis has a taste of the Gin and Tonic Experience at a swanky London hotel.

Radio DJ Mel Greig was the centre of a media frenzy after a prank call to a hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated, and she says it tore her life apart.

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 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.

A London pedestrian is 'lucky to be alive' today after a digital billboard came crashing down on top of her just days after it was installed.

Boris Johnson has succeeded in his bid for a Commons comeback after winning the seat for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in west London.

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.