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Irish Talk Show Host Admits to Masturbating on Aer 'Lingus' Flight

Ireland’s most popular local radio talk host has admitted he indecently exposed himself to passengers and crew on a London to Cork flight.

 

London cabbie may have raped 100 women

A London taxi driver who was jailed for drugging 19 women and sexually assaulting 12 may have actually raped as many as 102 over five years, the BBC reported on Tuesday .

 

4 plead guilty to selling girls for sex

A group of people who trafficked underage girls to London to sell them for sex will be sentenced Tuesday for trafficking and prostitution offenses, police said.

 

NYC student pleads guilty to terrorism charge

On the eve of his terrorism trial, an American student who studied in London admitted Tuesday that he helped a friend deliver some protective clothing to an al-Qaida military commander fighting Americans in Afghanistan.

 

U.K. Supreme Court considers prenuptial agreements

U.K. Supreme Court considers prenuptial agreements

This city filled with high-flying investment bankers is also known as the divorce capital of the world, thanks to the hefty financial ...

 

Dog of war: UK Lab fetches medal for bomb-sniffing

Dog of war: UK Lab fetches medal for bomb-sniffing

A perky British Labrador whose bomb-sniffing exploits helped save lives in Afghanistan was decorated for canine courage in a ceremony at London's Imperial War Museum Wednesday....

 

Saudi prince charged with murder

Saudi prince charged with murder

A Saudi Arabian prince appears in court accused of the murder of his aide in the five-star Landmark Hotel in London.

 

Alexander McQueen hanged himself in London home

A bereaved Alexander McQueen left a note, then hanged himself in his apartment on the eve of his mother's funeral, a coroner's inquest said Wednesday, giving the cause of the fashion designer's death as asphyxiation and hanging....

 

Giacometti Sculpture Fetches Record $104 Million

Giacometti Sculpture Fetches Record $104 Million

A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti was sold Wednesday at a London auction for $104.3 million - a world record for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, Sotheby's auction house said.

 

London's Heathrow airport deploys body scanners

Britain introduced body scanners at Heathrow airport Monday, a measure rushed in after a failed attempt by a Muslim extremist with explosives strapped to his leg to bomb a U.S.-bound passenger plane from Amsterdam.

 

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