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The article discusses the efforts that are being undertaken by transport company Uber to get its revoked taxi license in London, England reinstated and discusses a meeting between the company's chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi and London's transport commissioner Mike Brown.

The article discusses the use of snipers to shoot and kill foxes in cities throughout Great Britain, highlighting efforts to reduce the large fox population in London, England. Topics addressed include a professional fox sniper who accepts fees to eliminate foxes from the gardens and yards of homes, as well as animal rights efforts to protect the foxes.

The article presents the author's insights about the social condition in London, England, and mentions the resilience of Londoners against terrorism following the fire at Grenfell Tower building in West London.

The article focuses on the social interaction of an English actor, comedian and writer Humza Arshad with a group of high school students in London, England.

The article offers information on the Brixton Village in southern London, England which became a foodie center, and house prices increased by 45 per cent since November 2012.

The article reports that the trains in London Underground in London, England will be start running throughout the night beginning in 2015 and some of its ticket offices will be superceded by upgraded machines as part of a plan entailed to bring the oldest subway system into the 21st century.

LONDON -- James Konrad, a bookish 27-year-old with a polite manner, used to make a living at a sports betting company, weighing the odds of muddy terrain affecting the sure-footedness of racehorses. These days, he takes bets on the muddy terrain that is European politics. Mr. Konrad trades up to $:3 billion, or $4.7 billion, worth of euro zone bonds a day for Royal Bank of Scotland. The bets are just as uncertain in both fields, but the sums are vastly larger in his current job, amounts that seem to stagger even him. ''How do you make someone understand that you've traded a billion worth in bonds?'' Mr. Konrad said. ''A billion. It's easy to get lost in the zeros.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- Amber Charles still remembers the wasteland behind Stratford station, the hooded youths lingering across the street by the McDonald's and her mother's instruction not to walk the dirt track leading to their housing development after dark. Today, a sparkling new Olympic stadium and state-of-the art shopping mall have replaced the once-bleak expanse and the hooded youths are nowhere to be seen. What was once a dirt track has become a paved street complete with a road sign. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]