UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will today unveil a memorial to casualties of war often ignored by the general public: reporters, journalists, photographers and their attendant translators killed whilst working. The memorial, a glass and steel cone atop the new wing of Broadcasting House in Portland Place, will shine a beacon of light into the sky at 10pm every evening. The International News Safety Institute estimates that two reporters are killed each week. Despite the......

Depending on how much Internet reading you do, you may or may not be aware that today is Blog Action Day – a day on which bloggers around the web unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind. This year it’s the environment. And in honour of this, Londonist could think of nothing more appropriate than to suggest ideas for a greener day in this fair city of ours. 1. Get on......

Yesterday we brought you news about the 'World In One City' project - two comedians, Alex Horne and Owen Powell, looking for Londoners from every country represented at the UN. We caught up with Alex and Owen to quiz them about their Herculean task. What is your challenge and what made you take it up? We hope to prove that London is the best city in the world. There are obviously many ways to......

We all know that London is one of the largest, most exciting, cosmopolitan, multi-cultural cities in the world. What other city combines huge amounts of history, taxi drivers who actually know where they're going, a pub every ten metres, fantastic parks for lazy Sundays, and more live theatre and music than you can shake a stick at? None that we can think of. That's why we all live here, after all. Two London comedians......

It's the last week or so to donate as much of Microsoft's cash as we can to charity via their collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the ninemillion.org campaign: You can support the Click4theCause campaign whereby each time a user conducts an online search through the special http://click4thecause.live.com/ page, Microsoft will donate money to ninemillion.org to help the estimated 9 million refugee children and youth around the world. Seeing as......

This Day In London’s History 1961: Rioting outside the Belgian embassy as demonstrators protest against the killing of Patrice Lumumba, ex Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the summer of 1960, Patrice Lumumba was elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, becoming the country’s first democratically elected leader after it gained independence from Belgian colonial rule. However his brief rule over the troubled country was hardly plain-sailing......

Blimey, we're up to number 20 already. Thanks to everyone who's sent in all these absurdly doctored images of London. Check out the archives if you haven't already. Some corkers in there. This week's image is another play on the 'make our old buildings taller' theme. It's particularly pertinent this week, given the latest cultural cri de coeur from the United Nations. Londonist regular James submits a vision of St Paul's that looks strangely......

Discarded packed lunches galore at City Hall next Monday as it plays host to a World Food Day conference and journalists find out exactly how unethical their food is. World Food Day is actually 16th October but its shelf life has been extended by nefarious means to allow the London conference to take place a day later. Why 16th October? It was the day the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations......