Shopping on Oxford Street and taking in a West End show are musts in London, but if you have a little longer, here are five markets worth visiting.

The former lead singer of British rock band Lostprophets has pleaded guilty to a series of sexual offences, including trying to rape a baby.

Three women have been freed after spending 30 years held captive in a south London home, including one woman believed to have spent her entire life in domestic slavery.

Google says it has developed new technology to block child porn from its search results, but campaigners say it'll affect a fraction of the 1.2 trillion Google searches each year.

Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking, world-traveling and often-polarising author has died at the age of 94.

Britain's teeming capital is also a city of cultural riches, historic buildings and gorgeous parks, many of which can be experienced for free.

The British government has issued an unusually stark warning about a cyberscam that locks users out of their computers unless they pay a ransom, saying that tens of millions of people may soon be targeted.

Al-Qaeda and other terror groups are having a field day with the leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, UK spy chiefs told lawmakers in a strong condemnation of the American's espionage revelations.

A UK terror suspect is on the run in Britain after he escaped surveillance by putting on women's clothes at a London mosque.

The bodies of an elderly couple who mysteriously disappeared 15 years ago were unearthed in their own backyard last month.

England's second city has once again beaten London as a must-see destination, according to US travel writers.

In a blockbuster declaration at Britain's phone hacking trial, a prosecutor said two of Rupert Murdoch's former senior tabloid executives - Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson - had an affair lasting at least

The jury selected to hear Britain's tabloid phone hacking trial has been told by the judge to ignore a morass of "inaccurate and misleading" reports on the case.

British security company G4S is under fire in S Africa over allegations that its staff tortured inmates at the country's biggest private prison through electrocutions and forced injections.

Six people have been injured, including a woman who was struck by lightning outside her home, as wild weather lashed New South Wales yesterday.

Britain's 3-month-old future monarch, Prince George, was christened with water from the River Jordan at a rare four-generation gathering of the royal family in London.

At least 28 babies have joined the "George" club since the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's son was born in July.

Comments by the head of the Australian media company behind the tragic royal radio prank that 's*** happens' is causing new outrage in Britain.

Facebook has announced it is working on new ways to keep users from stumbling across gruesome content on its website following an outcry over the discovery of beheading videos there.

He forgot to book the wedding venue, so on the day, bridegroom Neil McArdle phoned in a bomb threat. He's been jailed for a year - but did his near-Mrs stand by him?

Beyond its urban attractions and historical draws, England's Lake District offers natural beauty to rival even the joys of home, writes Nic Hamilton.

Britain has struck an agreement to build a new nuclear power plant - the first such deal in the European Union since the disaster at Fukushima prompted a major rethink of the energy source's merits.

Two Boeing 747 jumbo jets recorded an alarming near-miss when pilots were told to take immediate evasive action - and instead turned towards each other.

A man with a history of mental illness was hoping to see Queen Elizabeth II when he tried to rush through a Buckingham Palace gate carrying a six-inch (15-cm) knife, a prosecutor said Tuesday.