New York is famed as “the city that never sleeps” but London, reveals a new study, sleeps even less, as do over 30 other cities worldwide. None sleep less than Cairo, the strife-torn capital of Egypt, which is today named the “world’s most 24-hour” city by a study of the world’s most round-the-clock metropolises. But [...]
The famous British singer George Michael has been sentenced to eight weeks in jail after driving under the influence of marijuana, according to Associated Press. George Michael pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight weeks in jail. On July 4 George crashed his car in a photo store in Hampstead, north London after taking a [...]
London Stock Exchange today welcomed Essar Energy plc (ticker: ESSR), one of India’s leading private sector power and oil and gas companies, to its Main Market. The company has raised £1.3 billion through its premium listing, making it the largest ever Indian IPO in London and the second largest Indian IPO on a public market [...]
Although the premiere of Iron Man 2 was supposed to take place in London, it was moved to Los Angeles due to chaos in air companies caused by the volcanic ash cloud. The first screening of the movie in London will be this Friday. Based on the Marvel Comics characters of the same name from [...]
The winner of the 2010 Virgin London Marathon mens race is Tsegaye Kebede with 2:05:18 winning time. Mutai second, a minute away, Kirui dropped out in the least few hundred meters and Gharib is third.
Liliya Shobukova wins the race, with a time of 2:22:00, Inga Abytova finished second. Mergia, that looked like she could win it, finishes third. Russia gets a double.
UPDATE 12:06: Thanks for joining News Provider on our live coverage of the 2010 London Marathon. We hope you enjoyed as much as we did. See you soon for another News Provider live coverage of the most important sporting events. Have a great Sunday! UPDATE 11:52: Mutai second, a minute away, Kirui dropped out in [...]
For the 30th London Marathon, for tomorrow a record number of runners have registered to start the 2010 Virgin London Marathon , more than ever before in the long history of the event. (London Marathon 2010 Live coverage) When the registration desks at the London Marathon Expo closed at 5pm this afternoon, a total of [...]
The London Marathon is to take place tomorrow, April 25th and some 35000 participants are expected. The organizers were afraid that the crisis of the ash cloud that the Iceland volcano produced would cause important racers to miss the marathon, but planes are flying and everything should be very close to normal tomorrow, at the [...]
By an official statement, the Department of National Air Traffic Control in the UK (NATS) reported that the limitations imposed by carriers British airspace because of the volcanic ash cloud shall survive six hours longer than expected. There are currently no restrictions in Scotland, Northern Ireland and in the air zone in the North Sea [...]