Police say there was no prior indication of a possible terrorist threat - yet it has emerged that a message appeared on a popular jihadist website on Thursday night seemingly predicting an attack.
A huge fire in central Cyprus has destroyed several holiday homes and forced the evacuation of at least two villages, officials say.
German politicians have condemned a computer generated photo of Poland's leaders sucking the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's breasts.
Thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of central London for its annual Gay Pride festival.
Some 800,000 people have now been hit by flooding in Pakistan's Balochistan province, with hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed, officials say.
Police say two separate explosive devices have been found in cars parked in London's West End.
The cost of claims from the UK floods to reach £1 billion according to estimates by the Association of British Insurers, the UK industry's trade group.
LONDON (Reuters) - Police closed a busy street in central London on Friday and were examining a suspicious vehicle there, a spokeswoman said.
A car bomb planted in central London would have caused "carnage" if it had exploded, police sources have said.
As Britain's biggest-ever peacetime rescue operation continued, the Government was accused of "seriously underestimating" the chaos caused by this week's floods.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is making an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic - so he can tap its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.
The threat of terror returned to London today after a large car bomb was found in the heart of the capital.
Scientists could create the first new form of artificial life within months after a landmark breakthrough in which they turned one bacteria into another.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will join the board of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Geneva-based organization said on Thursday.
Constant downpours that have claimed 11 lives in the past 10 days are giving Texans in the central hill country little chance to recover.