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More troops deployed, Games about sport and diplomacy

December 24, 2018 at 10:27 a.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain deployed 1,200 extra soldiers on Tuesday in a last-minute effort to bolster Olympic security while global diplomatic tensions started to play out among athletes and politicians...

Wiggins win raises UK Olympic hopes, Syrians arrive

December 24, 2018 at 10:17 a.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain basked in the glory of Bradley Wiggins' historic triumph in cycling's Tour de France on Monday and looked ahead with relish to more sporting success at...

Games boss upbeat as torch reaches London

December 24, 2018 at 10:07 a.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic chief Jacques Rogge flew into London on Friday a week ahead of the opening ceremony and predicted a "great Games", despite a security fiasco, travel disruptions...

Strike threats loom over London Games

August 23, 2021 at 10:55 a.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Strikes by train drivers and passport officials threaten major disruptions to the London Olympics, prompting the government to warn unions on Thursday that they risked public anger...

British comic actor Eric Sykes dies aged 89

August 23, 2021 at 10:17 a.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Eric Sykes, one of Britain's best-loved comedians who forged a career in entertainment by writing for others, has died, his manager said on Wednesday. He was 89....

Record price for Constable at center of family feud

August 23, 2021 at 10:15 a.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - An important work by British landscape artist John Constable at the center of a bitter feud within a Spanish aristocratic family sold for 22.4 million pounds ($35...

Record price for Constable at center of family feud

December 24, 2018 at 8:45 a.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - An important work by British landscape artist John Constable at the center of a bitter feud within a Spanish aristocratic family sold for 22.4 million pounds ($35...

New buyers may lift London art sales to $1 billion

August 23, 2021 at 9:33 a.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - London's art market is attracting the lion's share of business from an emerging class of super-wealthy collectors from Russia, the Middle East and China, and they are...

New buyers may lift London art sales to $1 billion

December 24, 2018 at 7:29 a.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - London's art market is attracting the lion's share of business from an emerging class of super-wealthy collectors from Russia, the Middle East and China, and they are...

Gandhi papers set to fetch $1 million in auction

August 23, 2021 at 9:16 a.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - A huge archive of letters, papers and photographs that shed new light on Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi and his time in South Africa will be auctioned in...

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