[Mediawiki-api] Get a description about cities

[IgalSt]

Hello 

I have in my DB urls of wikipedia pages for many capital cities around the
world 
(For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London) 

I would like to retrieve the short description of the city that all the
cities have before the "Contents" table. 
I need it in plain text of HTML. 

I should I do it? 

I have tried using it like that: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=render&title=London

But is there a way to retrieve only the short description?

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