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Rioting and looting spread across London on Monday as hooded youths set buildings and cars ablaze, smashed shop windows and hurled bottles and stones at police in a third night of violence in Britain's worst unrest in decades.

Chinese state media said 14 rioters were shot dead earlier this week after storming a police station in the country's far west.

Parked cars were set on fire, others were tipped over and people threw beer bottles at giant television screens following the Canucks’ loss to the Bruins.

Workers opposed to a higher retirement age blocked roads to airports around France on Wednesday, leaving passengers in Paris dragging suitcases on foot along an emergency breakdown lane.

Since riots between the Han and Uighur groups in 2009, the Chinese authorities have arrested hundreds and tried to soothe frayed nerves. But the push has done little to repair distrust.

Guards fired rounds to quell a "major riot" in the main yard of a prison in central California on Friday, a corrections department spokesman said.

Hundreds of rioters mad about the verdict in the trial of a white former police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man stormed the streets of downtown Oakland on Thursday night, police said.

Danish authorities say a Somali man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder for an attack on an artist whose cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad ignited riots and outrage across the Muslim world.

Political conflict and public piety converged on tension-filled streets in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday. Clashes erupted between riot police and opposition protesters as hundreds of people solemnly took part in an annual Shiite Muslim observance.

The men were sentenced by a Chinese court for their roles in the deadly ethnic rioting that convulsed the regional capital of Urumqi in July, the state news agency said.