London Fashion Week opened for the first full day of shows on Monday but attention remained more on the body shape of the models than the clothes they were wearing.

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- U.S. rock star Prince will play 21 concerts in London later this year and plans to take time off music to study the Bible, he announced on Tuesday.

LONDON (SHARECAST) - London has opened lower following the beating for US shares overnight. Household good giant Reckitt Benckiser is doing its best to offset the gloom with another superb set of quarterly figures prompting it to raise its forecasts again for the full year.

The familiar bongs of London's renowned Big Ben will be silenced over the next month for maintenance work, although the clock that stands above Britain's Houses of Parliament will continue to tell the time.

LONDON, England (AP) -- Love him or loathe him, London's Ken Livingstone is hard to ignore. He's an environmentalist, a leftist, a lover of newts.

Russian investigators are in London to investigate the radioactive poisoning death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian embassy said Tuesday.

LONDON (SHARECAST) - London ended the morning session in the blue though off its highs with broker comments accounting for most of the activity. Investors continued to cheer contract caterer Compass following bullish comments with its trading statement last week.

LONDON (AFP) - Europe's main stock markets rose strongly in initial trading on Monday after suffering massive losses last week owing to the US housing crisis.

Share prices on the London Stock Exchange closed slightly higher Friday after two days of heavy losses. The FTSE 100-share index was up 0.20 points to close at 6,116.20.

The Exploration Company recently announced Chairman, President and CEO James E. Sigmon and Vice President-Capital Markets Roberto R. Thomae will update investors and analysts on TXCO's growth strategy at Nasdaq's London Oil and Gas Conference