A Kennington home — expanded but still compact at 1,000 square feet and trimmed in green brick — was named the Jealous House by its architect.

A new Superloop express bus route linking Abbey Wood and North Greenwich will launch on Saturday, with passengers able to travel for free during its first week. The SL11 service will run as a limited-stop route via Thamesmead and Woolwich to cut journey times and improve connections to the Elizabeth line, DLR and London Underground.

Despite being a famously impatient city, Londoners spent the equivalent of six full days stuck in traffic last year according to TomTom’s data. It was crowned the slowest city in the continent, and the second slowest in the world (and the slowest capital city), as it was discovered that the Big Smoke’s traffic actually got worse from 2024 to 2025.

London’s murder rate fell in 2025 to its lowest level in decades, officials said Monday. Mayor Sadiq Khan said the figures disprove claims spread by U.S. President Donald Trump and others on the political right that crime is out of control in Britain’s capital.

The exodus has already hit London’s luxury housing market, with the prices of mansions tumbling in 2025. The value of properties going for £5 million ($6.7 million) or more have dropped by about 15% in the past year, according to research from real estate data company LonRes.

The NBA London Game 2026 presented by Tissot will be the 19th game featuring an NBA team in the UK since 1993 and the league’s 10th regular-season game in London. The regular-season game between the Orlando Magic and Memphis Grizzlies will take place on Sunday, Jan. 18, tipping off at 5 p.m. GMT (Noon ET).

Police are hunting armed robbers who smashed their way into a Rolex shop in central London and stole a number of high-value watches. Six suspects wearing motorcycle helmets threatened staff and members of the public with weapons including machetes at the Bucherer boutique in Knightsbridge on Tuesday morning.

A burst water main owned by Thames Water caused major flooding, shut roads and cut supplies to homes across several affluent areas of west London.