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Friends and family were saying goodbye to Amy Winehouse Tuesday at a private funeral ceremony in London.

A book chronicling a Chinese tragedy under Mao has won Britain's richest nonfiction book award, the Samuel Johnson Prize. Frank Dikotter's "Mao's Great Famine" won the 20,000 pound ($32,000) award at a ceremony in London on Wednesday.

Lionel Messi broke a 1-1 tie with his 53rd goal as Barcelona topped Manchester United 3-1 Saturday in the Champions League final at Wembley Stadium in London.

Cosmologists Alan Coley from Canada's Dalhousie University and Bernard Carr from Queen Mary University in London, have published a paper on arXiv, where they suggest that some so-called primordial black holes might have been created in the Big Crunch that came before the Big Bang.

Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa has defected upon landing in London, a close source to the minister told Reuters on Wednesday.

There's still a month to go until the royal wedding and yet some Britons are already asking: Is it over yet?

More than 250,000 people took to London's streets to protest the toughest spending cuts since World War II - one of the largest demonstrations since the Iraq war - as riot police clashed with a small groups. More than 200 people were arrested.

Well this is certainly a new flavor.The London shop "Icecreamists" is certainly taking desert to the extreme. This time, it's breast milk ice cream. Human breast milk might not sound delicious, but the "treat" will go on sale Friday, according to BBC, and it won't come cheap.

EasyJet has apologized to Jewish passengers after serving only pork products on a recent flight from Tel Aviv to London.

A baby was tested for HIV after she was twice given breast milk from strangers by a south-east London hospital.