Where to eat in London right now: an expert-led edit of the restaurants worth booking this month, from intimate tasting menus to big, buzzy nights out.

London appears to be dazzling with festive light displays, with the best view of these being from above. Aerial photographer Jason Hawkes has taken series of images from the sky, while flying across central London in an AS355 helicopter.

FT’s annual list of London’s best new restaurant openings of the year — a hat trick of coming to the same conclusion. It has been a bumper year for restaurant launches, despite the increasingly challenging economic environment faced by hospitality.

"Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo will be honored at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards. She will receive the Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation.

Also today: Five charts show NYC’s congestion pricing is working, and newcomers drive data center gold rush.

A woman has died after being struck by a vehicle in a north London parking lot Tuesday afternoon, police say. Emergency crews were called about 3 p.m. to a motor vehicle collision involving a female pedestrian in a parking lot in the 1400 block of Beaverbrook Avenue, just west of Wonderland Road, police said.

Leaving the airspace above New York City at 2,455 miles per hour, SR-71 tail number 64-17972 would set a transatlantic speed record on Sept. 1, 1974.