The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, breaks bail and seeks asylum in the Equadorian embassy in London

Anish Kapoor's 114.5 metres tall sculpture, AncelorMittal Orbit, is erected in the Queen Elizabeth Park, created in East London for the Olympic Games

Plans are published for an ambitious Garden Bridge, designed for pedestrians by Thomas Heatherwick, to span the Thames in London with trees and a garden on its surface

Laure Prouvost, a French artist working in London, wins the Turner Prize with her work Wantee, evoking a fictional relationship between her grandfather and Kurt Schwitters

In a London street two men hack to death a British soldier, Lee Rigby, and tell passers-by that they are avenging Muslims killed by the army

A fire at Grenfell Tower in London, England, kills 72 people and injures more than 70 others after spreading rapidly through cladding panels