Chris Millar: taxi to Heathrow, BA flight to Charles de Gaulle MY long, slow journey to the Eiffel Tower started in a black cab at Piccadilly Circus just before the peak of the rush hour.

By JENNIFER QUINN LONDON -- It was a minor call to the emergency services: A man in a nightclub hit his head and needed medical attention. But it set in motion a chain of events that saved potentially hundreds of lives.

By PAISLEY DODDS LONDON - Police thwarted a devastating terrorist plot on Friday, discovering two Mercedes loaded with nails packed around canisters of propane and gasoline set to detonate and kill possibly hundreds in London's crowded theater and nightclub district.

By COURTESY PHOTO West Virginia University student Iwona Kaczmarek, an advertising major from West Trenton, N.J., and roommate Julie Cerrone, a management information systems major at WVU, stand in front of a fountain in Picadilly Circus in London.

The retired No. 38 Piccadilly Circus Routemaster was spiffed up and gleaming in Kuwait for Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla to climb aboard.