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London (pronounced /ˈlʌndən/) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. Full Article
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British model Agyness Deyn arrives for the end of London fashion week Burberry show in central London on September 22, 2009.
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US actress Liv Tyler arrives for the end of London fashion week Burberry show in central London on September 22, 2009.
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US actress Liv Tyler arrives for the end of London fashion week Burberry show in central London on September 22, 2009.
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Sir Phillip Green arrives for the end of London fashion week Burberry show in central London on September 22, 2009.
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British actress Emma Watson arrives for the end of London fashion week Burberry show in central London on September 22, 2009.
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A worker erects scaffolding, in central London September 22, 2009. Britain's consumer watchdog handed out fines totalling 129.5 million pounds ($210 million) to 103 construction firms for colluding when bidding for work on projects such as hospitals, schools and housing refurbishments.
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A worker erects scaffolding in central London September 22, 2009. Britain's consumer watchdog handed out fines totalling 129.5 million pounds ($210 million) to 103 construction firms for colluding when bidding for work on projects such as hospitals, schools and housing refurbishments.
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A construction worker works on a building, in central London September 22, 2009.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (R) and Artistic Director of the Old Vic, Kevin Spacey pose for photographs in the Victoria and Albert Museum on September 21, 2009 in London, England.
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Kevin Spacey, Artistic Director of London's Old Vic theatre and Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (not pictured) pose for photographers in the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London, on September 21, 2009.
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Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (R) and Artistic Director of London's Old Vic theatre, Kevin Spacey pose for photographers in the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London, on September 21, 2009. Johnson and Spacey gave a keynote speech Monday on the impact of the recession on the arts.
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Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (R) and Artistic Director of London's Old Vic theatre, Kevin Spacey pose for photographers in the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London, on September 21, 2009. Johnson and Spacey gave a keynote speech Monday on the impact of the recession on the arts.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (R) and Artistic Director of the Old Vic, Kevin Spacey pose for photographs in the Victoria and Albert Museum on September 21, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (R) and Artistic Director of the Old Vic, Kevin Spacey pose for photographs in the Victoria and Albert Museum on September 21, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (R) and Artistic Director of the Old Vic, Kevin Spacey pose for photographs in the Victoria and Albert Museum on September 21, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (R) and Artistic Director of the Old Vic, Kevin Spacey pose for photographs in the Victoria and Albert Museum on September 21, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Mayor of London, Boris Johnson (R) and Artistic Director of the Old Vic, Kevin Spacey pose for photographs in the Victoria and Albert Museum on September 21, 2009 in London, England.
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The Mayor of London Boris Johnson poses for photographs beside a bust of William Stuart, Archbishop of Armagh, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, during an event to warn against cuts in spending on the arts and culture, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009.
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The Mayor of London Boris Johnson, right, and U.S. actor and Artistic Director of the Old Vic theatre Kevin Spacey pose for photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, during an event to warn against cuts in spending on the arts and culture, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 20: Cyclists participating in The Mayor of London's Skyride are viewed from the air on September 20, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 20: Cyclists participating in The Mayor of London's Skyride are viewed from the air in front of Buckingham Palace on September 20, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 20: Cyclists participating in The Mayor of London's Skyride are viewed from the air on September 20, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 20: Cyclists participating in The Mayor of London's Skyride are viewed from the air passing through Admiralty Arch on September 20, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 20: Cyclists participating in The Mayor of London's Skyride are viewed from the air on The Mall on September 20, 2009 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 20: Cyclists participating in The Mayor of London's Skyride are viewed from the air near Trafalgar Square on September 20, 2009 in London, England.
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US actress Liv Tyler arrives for the end of London fashion week Burberry show in central London on September 22, 2009.
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Following Sir Michael Lyons' report on relocation in 2004, the Government announced plans to relocate 20,000 posts out of London and the South East by March 2010. In the Budget, the Government announced that 19,000 relocations had already been achieved and as a result the Government would increase the t...
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We just recently participated at the World Travel Market at London, while senior government officials were on road shows covering Finland, Denmark, Switzerland and Italy
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Amy Winehouse is set to fill her north London home with ÂŁ20,000 worth of Christmas decorations. She spent half a day in Selfridges buying up goods that included dancing Santas, moving reindeers and Christmas lights (as well as eating lunch and dinner there).
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We are not just bringing London to Scotland
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London, Madrid, New York. We are not perfect. In the west you have better homeland security, but you spend a lot more money. We are inching towards perfection.
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Being in Paris, you’d be haunted a little bit if you started trying to paint Notre Dame or a view of the Seine by the fact that other people had painted it before, but the London I knew and saw hadn’t really been painted.
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I plan to invite our key ISAF allies to London in January to assess progress on Afghanistan, including when we move forward with district by district handover to Afghan control. Recent announcements by Afghan President Hamid Karzai of action against corruption are an essential part of this process.
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It can have a historical significance for the city. Just like Maracana Stadium in Brazil, and Wembley in London
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cultural angle ... Indian business does not know at all how France works, and there is also the belief that once you are in London you are in Europe.
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Elvis Presley found living in a London bus on the dark side of the Moon
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Because BMW is a big sponsor of the 2012 Olympics in London, and my wouldn’t it look green bringing a flotilla of electric land yachts to the games?
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To perform once again in my homeland on the London stage will be a wonderful moment -- it is where it all began for me, and I am so excited to be able to share a brand new work with audiences
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The justification for Park Plaza being the only suitable hotel is a complete untruth. The London Hilton Metropole is London's, and Europe's, largest hotel and has existed since the 1970s (the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza isn't even built yet).
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art and entertainment to Londoners and the large number of tourists who visit the city in the summer. In particular, London Festival Fringe allows artists and promoters living and working in London to put on shows and events to audiences on their doorsteps, at a price they can afford without earnings be...
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To perform once again in my homeland on the London stage will be a wonderful moment ... It is where it all began for me, and I am so excited to be able to share a brand new work with audiences.
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The house of a thrifty artisan in Los Angeles has more luxuries than the palaces of kings had even less than 300 years ago. There are thousands of residences of wealthy people of Los Angeles today in every way superior to Kensington Palace in London, in which Queen Victoria was born less than a century ...
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Bringing Pfizer to New London came at a heavy cost to taxpayers
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To perform once again in my homeland on the London stage will be a wonderful moment — it is where it all began for me.
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With its range of up to 4,000 nautical miles, the Falcon 2000LX can fly non-stop from Dubai to Paris and London ... The Falcon 2000LX is the optimum aircraft to fly this route with a spacious cabin and good performance enabling it to get into some of the smaller airports in Europe. This, coupled with it...
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One of the big ways that companies can help charities at the moment is by lending them their business skills – a great new initiative is ‘Pro Bono Economics’, which was set up recently in London to get economists from the City to volunteer to use their skills to help charities
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Of course, none of the buildings are as noisome or dilapidated as those described in Dickens' novels or Thomas Burke's Limehouse stories of the London slums of other days
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The expenditure on such items by a single city like London is estimated to be around $80-90 million and we believe there are around 45 cities in India that are likely to go for hi-tech surveillance and intelligence solutions
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On Monday the London-based newspaper Al Sharq al Wasat quoted a Moroccan official as critcising the general view that his government devotes more attention to Moroccan communities living in Europe than those residing in Arab and African countries
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I see us doing significantly well in the next few years. Currently, with our focus being Bangalore and London, we sell less than 1,000 units overall. However, we’re working with various partners to expand our sales network
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I would have loved to perform at the fund raiser in London but unfortunately I will be shooting that day. So I am planning to make a trip early next year. Nevertheless I would be more than happy to contribute monetarily to the victims of 26/11 in whatever way I can
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