No pants? No problem. At least not in London, England, this past week when hundreds of passengers on the London Underground (a.k.a. the Tube) commuted wearing only their underwear. If this group ...

Shepherd's Bush Underground Station was opened in 1900 and was an immediate commercial success. One of the old tunnels in the station was later used as an underground shelter during World War II.

A new exhibition staged at The Map House brings the history of the iconic London Underground to the surface. Located in Knightsbridge, Mapping the Tube: 1863–2023 charts the many evolutions of the ...

LONDON — For anyone with even a passing acquaintance with London, the city's Tube map is as iconic as the red buses or the black cabs. But for the past few years, there's been something not quite ...

ABC News were granted an exclusive look inside the "beating heart of London." LONDON -- Very few -- if any -- of the hundreds of thousands of Londoners who take the London Underground through ...

The Jubilee line opened in 1979 as a “new line”, though it called at no new stations and almost entirely used existing Underground track. In fact, the majority of the initial route was just a ...

A type of mosquito that was believed to have evolved in the London Underground has a much older origin in the Mediterranean, according to a new genetic study. The myth originated during World War II ...

Standing on a strip-lit London Underground platform, I’m staring at the billboards across the tracks. Primary colours jump out above grimy rails. To the left is a placard for cheap holidays in the sun ...

Most metros use plastic or metal, but the distinctive fabrics on London’s network are full of clues to its history When I first came to London from Yorkshire in the late 1980s, I found the tube ...

A variety of mosquito once thought to have evolved in the tunnels of the London Underground seems to have originated alongside humans thousands of years ago in the Middle East, a genetic analysis ...

A large international team of researchers has discovered that the mosquitoes that live in London's underground subway evolved from a Middle Eastern species over thousands of years. In their paper ...