Leeds, Birleşik Krallık Güncel Saati — BST.

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It was awarded its Royal City Charter by King Charles 1st in 1626 and expanded in the 17th and 18th centuries by becoming a major production and trading centre.

Distance-wise, Leeds is closest to London (~272 km), New York (~5,404 km), Dubai (~5,615 km); Sydney is the far end at roughly 16,939 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.

Leeds sits inside Birleşik Krallık — the Northern Europe subregion, capital London, languages English, currency GBP (£).

Around Leeds, the nearest mapped reference cities are Chapel Allerton (4 km), Morley (7 km), Pudsey (7 km), Horsforth (8 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for BST planning.

Upcoming country holiday signals around Leeds: Early May Bank Holiday, Spring Bank Holiday, World Cup Bank Holiday. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Birleşik Krallık.

Closest curated airport references from Leeds: LBA Leeds, West Yorkshire (11 km), MAN Manchester, Greater Manchester (69 km), LPL Liverpool (100 km).

In 2004, CBS News releases evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.