In an accompanying editorial in The Lancet, Edmund Jessop from the UK Faculty of Public Health in London said the UK had done very well in many areas of public health - it had stronger tobacco control than any other country in Europe, for example - but there was still "plenty of room for bold action by politicians".
Google's Matt Brittin said the move was "good news for Google, London and the UK".
The torch for the London Olympics toured the UK extensively but was brought to Britain straight from Athens.
"Transport projects provide a fantastic opportunity to help London and the UK recover from the recession, " said Mr Johnson.
The Met's Counter Terrorism Command, SO15, based at New Scotland Yard, has responsibility for protecting London and the UK from terrorism.
Without London, the UK would look like a rather different economy - one less focussed on financial services, more reliant on manufacturing.
The idea was recently awarded the top prize in the " High Line for London" competition run by the UK's Landscape Institute in partnership with the Mayor of London and the Garden Museum.
"The gold post boxes gave communities even more opportunity to mark the successes of their local athletes - and became a part of local celebrations of London 2012 across the UK, " he said.
The Met Office has issued a yellow "be aware" warning of ice for a large chunk of the UK from London in the south east, across north Wales up to Northern Ireland and across northern England and southern Scotland.
BBC: Power problems remain after severe weather cuts supplies
Dr Norman MacLeod, the keeper of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London, UK, told the BBC that the iridium anomaly could be attributed to other factors.
Across the UK, London once again bucked the overall trend and saw significant increases in prices, while the North East and Wales saw the biggest drops.
Dr Sarah Walters, lead author from the Cancer Research UK Cancer Survival Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the reasons for low overall survival in the UK and Denmark were different and needed different solutions.
"Compared to the rest of London and other parts of the UK, the Thames Gateway has a significant skills and jobs gap - particularly among local residents, " the report said.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | London | Gateway skills shortage warning
Scientists at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute and the University College London Cancer Institute have been trying to crack how cancers become so diverse in the first place.
The Libyan ambassador in London was ordered to leave the UK on 1 May following the attack.
While some are keen to blame Twitter for its part in the riots spreading across London and other cities in the UK, others have jumped to its defence.
The London 2012 Festival is a UK wide festival, and we are very excited about the upcoming London 2012 Festival event "See No Evil 2012: Urban Festival" in Bristol.
Some of the biggest names of London 2012 received CBEs - the UK's most successful female rower, Katherine Grainger, the poster girl of the Games, Jessica Ennis, and wheelchair athlete David "The Weirwolf" Weir.
The UK could be "proud" of its record on overseas aid, he added, but the global attention on London at the moment gave the UK an opportunity to show it "cares about the poorest in the world".
It was hoped that the expertise gained in putting on the London event would give UK firms an edge in winning sport business contracts in the future.
John Stewart, chairman of the UK Noise Association in London said the study echoed anecdotal reports from people living under flight paths who said even when levels were within recommended safety limits, noise could still be bad for your health.
Professor Eric Taylor, from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, said support across the UK was "patchy" but called it a "developing situation".
Now it's Europe's turn, with demonstrations over the weekend against another piece of anti-piracy legislation Acta, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. (By the way, there is a good explanation of all of the various anti-piracy measures here.) Now, for all the online anger, this is not an issue that has really caught the public imagination in the UK. The crowd at London's anti-Acta demo numbered no more than a few hundred.
The south-east (excluding London) received 87% of the UK figure per head, and the north-east was on 107%.
However, even this Scandinavian classic proves controversial in the elite London quarters of the Danish Ambassador to the UK, Anne Hedensted Steffensen.
BBC: Scandinavian food: Why is it becoming popular in the UK?
In many instances, this would mean having to hear the evidence of individual patients in the UK and flying them to London for the hearing.
The first Blockbuster store in the UK opened in south London in 1989, and the firm has sought to expand its services in recent years, including with a trade-in facility for pre-owned titles.
Later, the Syrian ambassador to London was summoned to be told that the UK expected Damascus to arrange for the immediate repatriation of the journalists' bodies and to provide medical treatment for the injured British journalist.
G4S, which failed to lay on enough security staff for the London 2012 Olympic Games, provides security for the UK Border Agency (UKBA) at the centre, in Pease Pottage, West Sussex.
Commenting on the study, Professor Anne Mills, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK, said that external funding may be low because a country may be funding its own malaria programmes.
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