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Cheeky British Shopkeeper Cheekily Flouts Draconian Olympics Branding Rules
Adrian Chen · 07/23/12 10:56AMBuses Transporting Olympic Athletes From the London Airport to the Olympic Village Get Lost for Four Hours
Taylor Berman · 07/16/12 09:12PMMcDonald's to Play Games with Hearts by Opening and Immediately Destroying the World's Largest McDonald's
Caity Weaver · 06/26/12 08:28PMIt's an open secret that the city of London's Olympic bid was nothing more than a brazen attempt to lure America's most popular fast food corporations to open up franchises in that dusty, far flung corner of the world. Now The Guardian reports London is finally getting what it craves: its very first fifty-first McDonald's.
Julian Assange Is Now Seeking Political Asylum In London's Ecuador Embassy
Adrian Chen · 06/19/12 02:00PMThe World Regrets Letting England Plan a Party as Olympic Opening Ceremony Details Are Revealed
Caity Weaver · 06/12/12 07:32PMLondon Finds the Remains of Shakespeare’s First Theatre Right Where They Left Them: Underneath London
Caity Weaver · 06/06/12 11:17PMBehold the London Olympics' Creepy 'Brand Exclusion Zone'
Adrian Chen · 05/24/12 05:34PMLondon's New CCTV Cameras Speak In American Accent
Noah Garfinkel · 02/07/12 12:10AMMoron Paleontologists Find New Species of Dinosaur in Their Own Museum
Max Read · 12/06/11 04:00PMBritish Lady's Racist Tram Rant Caught On Tape
Adrian Chen · 11/28/11 01:59PMMarc Jacobs Is Offering a Reward for His Stolen Collection
Brian Moylan · 11/18/11 03:35PMViolence Erupts in Rome as Occupy Wall Street Goes Global
Max Read · 10/15/11 12:11PMWatch This Long-Jumper Leap Over Three Mini Coopers
Lauri Apple · 09/30/11 04:00AMHow many cars do you usually leap over at one time, when you do that? British long-jumper and Olympic hopeful J.J. Jegede can clear at least three, as he demonstrates in this video shot near the Tower Bridge in London. (A nifty time-lapse picture of Jegede's 20-foot jump lives here.) Jegede's personal best is 8.04 meters—still not enough to qualify for the Olympics, but there's still time.
Biking to Work Is Ruining Your Lungs
Brian Moylan · 09/26/11 03:54PMStabbing, Fleeing, Heroism, Incompetence, Drama Captured in One Shot
Hamilton Nolan · 08/31/11 08:18AMAt London's Notting Hill Carnival on Monday, 20 year-old Rio Andre was stabbed by a teenager after trying to break up a fight. What was that intense moment like? Well, just look at this god damn picture: There's Andre in the middle of the scene with his wound, arms out, looking stricken; there's the stabber, fleeing the scene with knife in hand; there's the heroic bystander trying to trip the perp as he runs by; there are the police, frozen, like "huh?"; there's the crowd in the background, shocked.
Clueless British Police Suggest Twitter Require Real Names
Adrian Chen · 08/26/11 11:42AMThe Volunteer Army Staging a Post-Riot 'Urban Intervention'
Remy Stern · 08/12/11 05:38PMBritish Police Plan a 'Fightback' as Three More Die in Riots
Adrian Chen · 08/10/11 10:36AMThis Is What London Looked Like Today
Leah Beckmann · 08/09/11 05:24PMAs looting and rioting continues across London for a fourth evening, residents are steeling themselves for another night of mayhem. Here's what parts of the city looked like before nightfall, as officers battled rioters, fires continued to burn, and optimistic store owners began the cleanup process.