Many of the Americans who packed the Thanksgiving service at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral have had their lives thrown into turmoil by the current financial crisis.

After years of lying unused, a historic tunnel complex built in 1940 can be bought for $7.4 million.

As Britain confronts the highest rate of unemployment in over a decade, the country’s financial center is suffering not just from a loss of jobs but of prestige, too.

At a new shopping center in London, CBS Outdoor has installed more than 100 digital advertising screens, including one covering 646 square feet.

The British airports operator BAA said it was putting its Gatwick Airport near London for sale, but would resist regulatory pressure to sell other parts of its portfolio.

The exchange suffered its worst breakdown in eight years as a computer glitch prevented traders from participating in a global rally after the U.S. takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The new cabs are a bigger and, according to the manufacturer, a less polluting alternative to the tourist symbol that traces its roots back to 1919.

The British oil company said that a Russian court had barred Robert Dudley, the head of its troubled Russian joint venture, from office for two years.

Luqman Arnold, who accumulated a 2.5 percent stake in UBS, wants to repair UBS corporate governance by removing what he called “insiders” from the board of directors.

In London, the Treasury secretary called for a new regulatory system that would allow even large financial institutions to fail without risking a wider market collapse.