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London: World's Favourite City
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March 2007Londoners have always known they live in a great city - a place where people come from across the globe to enjoy all the capital has to offer and to do business ... But now an official report by internationally renowned management consultants McKinsey has said New York is losing its place to London as the world's leading financial centre.

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Ok, I'll be honest.  That trip to the National Portrait Gallery was with a date.  A friend of a friend of a friend.  A disaster.  I dont know why I agreed to meet - but the thing is, there was so much to look out of the window at, so many people in the cafe to comment on, and then so many pictures to look at below - check out ...

Under-18s are banned from x-rated exhibition
Nigel Reynolds
Telegraph
Last Updated: 1:58am GMT 22/02/2007

Called Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now, the exhibition will show more than 250 objects - ranging from statues, carvings and reliefs from classical Greece and Rome to contemporary work by Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs of homosexual acts cause controversy whenever they are shown, and images from the American Jeff Koons's Made in Heaven series, showing his former wife, ...

On the road (or in the air) so much you don't know what time/day it is where you are/were/going? Gotta call someone on the other side of the planet and can't remember the country code?

Here's a pretty handy website - http://www.timeanddate.com/ - for keeping up with time zones, travel distances and lots more. What's especially helpful is its international dialing codes section, which makes international calls ...

Indoor surfing centre for London Indoor surfing centre for London
An huge indoor surf park boasting machine-generated waves is being planned for London. An huge indoor surf park boasting machine-generated waves is being planned for London.
BBC News
Last Updated: Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 19:31 GMT

The Surfdome, the first of its kind in Europe, will feature a 75m long pool recreating perfect surfing waves ... Discussions have been taking place with developers in ...

Tate Modern sees visitor increase
Tate Modern is the second most visited venue in the country with 4.9m visitors, according to new research.
BBC News
Published: 2007/02/21 09:02:44 GMTThe site, in London's South Bank, saw an increase of 21% in the number of its visitors compared to 2005 ... Among the least visited attractions were the National Museum of Costume in Scotland and the National Wool Museum in Wales.

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Iam really  a big   fan  of   both  Chelsea Fc and  Arsenal .Each time  both  team plays  football against each   other ,I  don"t take   sides ,but   all  I do is to sit  back and watch  great  skills on display.Being a woman doesn"t  make   me  less  interested  in  football.Even when Iam cooking  in  the  kitchen,Ifeel most distracted  whenever the Gunners or Champions  are playing  and   I  appreciate  the   fact that both teams   have  ...

Chinese New Year dawns upon us this February 18th! Although it's not quite spring yet in London, you can celebrate the coming of spring and the year of the Boar! Chinese New Year is a traditionally a time for reunion, strengthening relationships and raucous displays of fun, so join in the festivities!
London is home to the biggest Chinese population in Europe. It should come as no surprise then ...

Wow. Rich and powerful people at Mahiki. Even the Italian papers are taking notice.

Harry out on the town... again
By JAMIE PYATTand TOM REILLY
Sun Online
February 08, 2007

[Prince Harry] ... arrives at trendy Mahiki nightclub in London’s Mayfair with 15 pals including Guy Pelly and ex-girlfriend Natalie Pinkham. They meet Madonna and hubby Guy Ritchie in club. Glamour model Dita Von Teese and Big Brother’s Donny Tourette, from punk band Towers ...

So the "big snow storm" turned to slush pretty quickly. Still, it was pretty for a short time early this morning. Here are some pics. Enjoy.

Photography by Chris Osburn © 2007