The Latest Breaking News from London

Car smashes into front gates of Downing Street

A person has been arrested after a car was driven into the front gates of Downing Street in London, police say.

The New Daily · May 25, 2023

Sam Kerr wins again - but won't take it for granted

Sam Kerr has collected her Footballer of the Year trophy in London - the first woman to be honoured two years in a row - and hopes more silverware will follow.

AAP · May 25, 2023

Monkeypox: Increase in cases in London sparks vaccination plea

Campaigners call for extension of vaccination programme after monkeypox cases increase

Evening Standard · May 25, 2023

London parents are ‘nanny-poaching’ in playgrounds as childcare costs soar

Charity founder Joeli Brearley said London parents were ‘desperate for any form of childcare’

Evening Standard · May 25, 2023

Broken pledge over 40 new hospitals will leave NHS ‘crumbling’, ministers told

Health experts and MPs criticise Steve Barclay’s delays to some projects and failure to offer sufficient funding

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2023

EU takes on artificial intelligence: Will Europe's regulation scare off OpenAI?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company could "cease operating in Europe if the EU gets too tough". Altman is currently in Europe, visiting Paris after London. When he was called before Congress last week in Washington to talk about the same issue of regulating artificial intelligence, Altman made three…

France 24 · May 25, 2023

Man arrested after crashing into gates at Downing Street

A car collided Thursday with the gates of Downing Street in central London, where the British prime minister's home and offices are located, setting off a rapid, intense security response at one of London's most-fortified sites. No one was injured and police said they were not treating the incident as…

France 24 · May 25, 2023

Hundreds attend London funeral for second world war veteran Peter Brown

Large turnout for RAF air gunner’s funeral follows campaign to locate his relatives after he died alone, aged 96

The Guardian - UK · May 25, 2023

Man arrested after car collides with gates of Downing Street, where UK prime minister lives

Police say a car has collided with the gates of Downing Street in central London, where the British prime minister’s home and offices are located

The Independent UK · May 25, 2023

Downing Street car collision not being treated as 'terror-related', say UK police

A man was arrested on Thursday after a car collided with the front gates of Downing Street, site of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's office and residence, in an incident London police said was not currently being treated as "terror-related".

Reuters · May 25, 2023