The 50-foot clock tower was built with the help of Dutch engineers in the early 1870s, during the reign of Rama Varma XIV, and houses a clock made by J Cooke and Sons, a British company.

A man who climbed up the tower housing Big Ben in an apparent protest has now come down. The barefoot man spent most of the day on a ledge several metres up the Elizabeth Tower holding a ...

A man has been arrested after spending more than 16 hours barefoot and holding a Palestine flag while perched on the clock tower of Big Ben. The man scaled the Elizabeth Tower on Saturday morning ...

An incident involving a man who scaled the clock tower of Big Ben on Saturday morning is expected to continue into Sunday as negotiators have been unable to convince him to come down. The man ...

London, United Kingdom (AFP)—A man with a Palestinian flag who climbed London’s Big Ben clock tower early on Saturday was still perched on the famous landmark after nightfall, even as ...

He has since been removed from the tower (Picture: Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images) A man has been charged after a protester was spotted climbing up the clock tower of Big Ben.

A man has scaled Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben. Credit: PA A man has been arrested after spending more than 16 hours barefoot and holding a Palestine flag while perched on the clock tower ...

A 29-year-old man has been charged after climbing onto the clock tower of Big Ben, Metropolitan Police said. Daniel Day, of Palmerston Road, Westcliff, has been charged with intentionally or ...

A man who scaled the clock tower of Big Ben on Saturday morning came down just after midnight on Sunday, having spent hours barefoot and holding a Palestine flag on the Elizabeth Tower. Pictures from ...

A protester on the Elizabeth Tower (James Manning/PA) Negotiators are continuing to appeal to a man who is several metres up the clock tower of Big Ben to come down as darkness falls. The man ...

Emergency services talk to a man after he climbed up Elizabeth Tower at the Palace of Westminster in London (Jeff Moore/PA) A man who scaled the clock tower of Big Ben on Saturday morning came ...