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Travel warning on 2012 hotspots

2012 Olympics Travel Hotspots

Olympics organisers publish a list of hotspots that businesses, Londoners and visitors to the capital should avoid during the Games.

 

Goodell: NFL hoping to add 2nd game in London

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is interested in adding a second regular-season game in London and says the move will be discussed at the owners meetings this week.

 

Man raped walking along footpath

A man is raped after being attacked while walking along a footpath in Southampton, prompting a police investigation.

 

Parents 'force-fed baby to death'

Parents 'force-fed baby to death'

A couple used a jug to make their 10-month-old daughter take solid food which eventually killed her, a court hears.

 

2 jailed for inciting riots via social media

2 jailed for inciting riots via social media

Two men have been jailed for four years each in northwest England for inciting disorder via social networking sites as rioting and looting erupted in London and other cities last week, police said Tuesday.

 

Cameron: Riots due to 'moral collapse'

Prime Minister David Cameron blames the riots that shook Britain over the past 10 days on a "slow-motion moral collapse ... in parts of our country," he will say Monday, according to his office.

 

London police say nearly 700 charged over riots

Thousands of extra police officers were stationed on Britain's streets Friday, as the country faced its first weekend since riots raged through suburbs and town centers, leaving a scarred landscape of broken glass and torched buildings....

 

British PM: Police waited too long to act

British Prime Minister David Cameron told lawmakers that police in London waited too long to begin arresting rioters after unrest broke out Saturday.

 

British riots spread on third night of violence

British riots spread on third night of violence

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.

 

London crowds burn cars, buildings to protest slaying

British authorities urged for calm early Sunday, hours after demonstrators in north London burned police cars, and set a bus and buildings ablaze to protest the death of a local man.

 

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