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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.

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

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.

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.

International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge puts London 2012's readiness for the Games on a par with Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008.

One by one, the lulz are coming to an end. Scotland Yard announced Wednesday that it had arrested a 19-year-old it claims is a core member of the hacker group LulzSec who goes by the name “Topiary.” The young hacktivist was captured in a home in the Shetland Islands off the northeast coast of Great Britain, and taken to London for questioning.

Friends and family were saying goodbye to Amy Winehouse Tuesday at a private funeral ceremony in London.

A book chronicling a Chinese tragedy under Mao has won Britain's richest nonfiction book award, the Samuel Johnson Prize. Frank Dikotter's "Mao's Great Famine" won the 20,000 pound ($32,000) award at a ceremony in London on Wednesday.

Lionel Messi broke a 1-1 tie with his 53rd goal as Barcelona topped Manchester United 3-1 Saturday in the Champions League final at Wembley Stadium in London.