The King's Cross Filling Station, N1 Tolpuddle Martyrs, nr Dorchester, Fri to 15 Jul A trade unionist's wet dream, celebrating solidarity and radicalism.
In the subway, little changed except the name of a downtown station, which was renamed "Martyrs" from "Mubarak".
In the 1970s the station became a free-speech martyr when the Supreme Court upheld a Federal Communications Commission indecency citation for running George Carlin's seven "filthy words".
"What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs?" asks his hero, the West Berlin intelligence station chief Alec Leamas.
The television station used the term "shaheed," which means "martyr," to describe anyone killed by the American-led forces.
It calls for support for jihad in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and anywhere else holy war is being waged: a recent posting shows a romantic- looking suicide bomber who was "martyred" carrying out an attack on an Egyptian police station in Sinai.
Moneyed fans with a spare £20,000 will enter a draw to become the 'Martyr' donator, allowing them to choose their character's station in the novel before they die.
Security is tight as the crowds pour in from the nearby highway and metro station, Shahid Beheshti – one of many named after the martyrs of the 1979 revolution.
Hizbullah's Manar satellite TV station announced that a previously unknown group, the Martyrs of Imad Mughniyeh and Gaza, was responsible for the attack, although the claim could not be verified.
Isis have since claimed the married couple were supporters of the extremist group, praising them as "martyrs" in a bulletin on the group's Al-Bayan radio station.
