Traveling from New York to London on a commercial passenger airline currently takes almost seven hours. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to make this trip in 30 minutes, writes Time out. Last month at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC2017) ...
In London, on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, near the Natural History Museum, a car crashed into a crowd of people. As a result of the collision of the car with pedestrians, several people were injured, police said. As the BBC News correspondent reported, the driver crossed the carriageway on a diagonal and hit ...
An explosion occurred in the London Underground at Parsons Green station, which is located in the southwest of the city. Initially, eyewitnesses reported an explosion of a bucket left in a bag in a train carriage, writes BBC. The explosion at the station occurred as a result of the detonation of an improvised explosive device, said the deputy head...
The UK has officially notified the European Union of its intention to leave the EU, thereby launching the Brexit procedure. The appeal was signed by Theresa May on the evening of March 28, and was delivered to Brussels by the British Ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow. In it, London announces that it is enacting Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union, reports meduza.io. For the exit...
Seven people have been arrested in connection with an attack in central London on Wednesday, British police said. According to updated data, the terrorist attack killed not 7, but 5 people, including the attacker. The dead were police officer Keith Palmer, as well as a woman about 4 years old and a man...
The first competition was held in London to select the best dog for an office startup, writes usatoday.com. A French bulldog named Amelie became the winner of an unusual competition. To participate in the competition, dog owners had to send short videos of their pets “working” in…
Russian tennis players Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Elena Vesnina made it to the quarter finals of the 1 Wimbledon tournament. In addition, the representative of Kazakhstan Yaroslava Shvedova entered the top eight. On Monday, Pavlyuchenkova, who now ranks 4rd in the world rankings, beat American Coco Vandeway and ...
Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was killed in February 2015 in Moscow, was posthumously awarded the Sergei Magnitsky Human Rights Prize. The first presentation of the awards took place in London on the sixth anniversary of the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center. An award for Boris Nemtsov...
The Anti-Corruption Foundation, which is headed by Alexey Navalny, published the results of an investigation into the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government Igor Shuvalov, who was found to have luxury real estate in London. As Navalny writes on his blog, the high-ranking official “pays 688 million for his London apartment...
British performance confectionery company Bompas & Parr will present an original installation for drinkers in London's Borough market. Thus, the authors of the installation promise to "give" the visitors a cloud of wine, beer or even an alcoholic cocktail. Guests of the bar will drink alcohol ...