London marks abolition with slave exhibition
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To mark next year's bicentenary of the slave trade being abolished across the British Empire, London is to open its first gallery dedicated to the trade.
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Today, London Waterloo; next year, Paris and Brussels
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LONDON, Feb 3 (IPS) - Nelson Mandela, 86, needed no support when he   walked up to address thousands at Trafalgar Square in London  Thursday. He  had the support of a cheering crowd, and of one of  the most powerful  movements ever to gather against world  poverty.
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Thousands of anti-war activists marched through central London, Sunday, October 17, 2004, to protest the US-led occupation of Iraq.
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Sunny weather drew around 600,000 people to the Notting Hill Carnival this bank holiday weekend to enjoy the parades, dancers, costumes, sound systems and street performances. The theme of this year's event was Set All Free, commemorating the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade
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St. Paul Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn held a commemoration to express the grief of the slave trade from Africa to the New World.
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A new exhibition in London lifts the lid on the real-life world of spying, amid concerns about a developing "Big Brother" society and its effects on individual freedoms and civil liberties.Comment
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A new exhibition in London lifts the lid on the real-life world of spying, amid concerns about a developing &quot;Big Brother&quot; society and its effects on individual freedoms and civil liberties.
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Almost 14,000 prisoners have been freed early in England and Wales to relieve overcrowding, government figures show.
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Mr Hussain and his brother Amjad will address the meeting A British organisation which championed his fight for freedom at an event in ... via BBC
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Today, 27 million people are enslaved, more than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Nelson Mandela is hailed a "liberator of people", as a statue is unveiled in central London.
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In London this summer there have been two notable efforts to reclaim the past. The ever-venturesome Shakespeare's Globe, whose very architecture is an act of historicism, staged three performances in late June ...
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WEMBLEY, England - For art, they could have gone to the British Museum. For something grand, Big Ben and Buckingham Palace were a train ride away.
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Hundreds of civil rights campaigners staged on Sunday a protest outside a prison in London against foreign nationals being held under anti-terror laws which allows foreign suspects to be jailed indefinitely without trial.
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Comment is free: Tristram Hunt: The chasm between rich and poor seen in London today resembles the Manchester that Engels described in the 1840s.
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Russia will permit paintings from its museums to go to London for a major exhibition after British legislation protecting art from seizure in lawsuits comes into force, the government culture agency said Friday.