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British police investigating tabloid phone hacking have arrested a long-serving former assistant to ex-News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks and other executives at Rupert Murdoch’s News International group. More >

Virginia coach Mike London has been given a new five-year deal and a raise, the university announced Friday.

The new agreement adds two years to London’s contract, through 2016, and increases his annual salary to $2.1 million. It also includes a longevity bonus that takes effect Jan. 15, 2015.

The City of London may regret David Cameron’s euro isolation. Britain’s prime minister opted out of a pan-European deal to save the euro zone after failing to secure special protection for the UK financial services industry. But his stand leaves Britain’s dominant economic sector exposed – both in Europe and at home.

Britain had little to lose and much to gain from a successful euro zone summit. If the single currency collapses, the UK economy and its financial system would suffer. Meanwhile, the proposed fiscal reforms designed to help restore confidence in the euro zone do not directly affect European Union countries outside the single currency.

According to IRNA reporter in London, around 25 Iranian diplomats with their families left London at 16:35 GMT. Some of the diplomats, talking with IRNA on the phone, said they and their families are leaving Britain with ‘dignity and pride’.

The British Government in a move, described by many experts as hasty and passive, closed down Iranian Embassy in London and ordered Iranian diplomats to leave Britain within 48 hours.

Anti-capitalist activists have occupied an empty office block in London owned by Swiss banking giant UBS, their third protest site in the British capital, the movement said on Friday. More >

The contract to build the new bus for London Transport was awarded to Ballymena company Wrightbus in January last year.

Twenty five engineers and a production team of 40 are employed on the project.

An initial order was placed for eight prototype buses, with the company hoping many more will follow.

Global equality campaigners are staying at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London after their camp site prompted the closure of Christopher Wren’s 17th century masterpiece because of safety fears. More >

A British couple have died in Spain after being swept away in a flash flood, a government official has said.

The pair, believed to be in their 70s, were hit by a torrent of water at a street market in the town of Finestrat on the Costa Blanca, said Interior Ministry official Jose Perez Grau. More >