The fact is, as the current disturbances clearly demonstrate, that Britain is a hard, grim and rough nation that has long been scarred by social inequalities, violence, drug abuse, gang warfare, racial tension, the collapse of manufacturing and, now, an economic crisis that threatens to tear the country asunder.
Following three nights of rioting and looting in London, some police, politicians and media organizations singled out Blackberry's messaging network as being a useful aid for UK troublemakers.
Gang warfare, drug trafficking, high unemployment and teenage pregnancy have blighted Tottenham for many years.
A 26-year-old man has died after being shot during rioting in a south London suburb.
A 26-year-old man who was shot in a car in Croydon, south of London, during disturbances this week has died, becoming the first fatality of riots sweeping Britain, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
The London riots and looting have continued for the third consecutive day.
Over 334 people in London and about 100 in Birmingham in the English Midlands had been arrested so far due to the worst rioting and looting ever in UK according to police. Violence also broke out in Bristol and the northwest port of Liverpool.
British Prime Minister David Cameron will deploy 16,000 police officers on Tuesday, almost tripling the current number, to help quell the London riots. Cameron cut short a vacation in Italy to return to London where he called for an emergency parliamentary session on Tuesday where he made the announcement after three nights of fire and looting in the capital and other British cities.It is believed that gangs of youths, some masked, are the ones looting shops, setting businesses ablaze and clashi...
Rioting ? primarily youths attacking police and looting stores ? has spread from parts of London into other major cities, including Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol.
While the politicians and police believe Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger has triggered the fire of riot in London, but thousands of these social network users have made a clean-up effort.
The game has already sold around 70,000 tickets.
Carling Cup matches have already been postponed due to the instability in the country.
The rioting that trembled London over the weekend has spread to at least eight new districts on Monday and Tuesday, including cities of Liverpool and Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city.
The riots, currently, have continued for the third consecutive day and have spread to other parts of UK.
The U.S. contingent in the World Badminton Championship in London suffered a jolt on the opening day of the tournament Monday as the American players lost their five out of six matches. In the very first match Men's Doubles pair of Howard Bach and Tony Gunawan lost to Malaysia's Mohd Zakry Abdul Latif and Thien How Hoon 17-21, 14-21.
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.
In particular, the risk of death seemed to correlate with the perceived niceness of co-workers, as less friendly colleagues were associated with a higher risk of dying and friendly co-workers helped to alleviate the stress. In contrast, the niceness of the boss had little impact on mortality.
The London riot, now in its third day, is going strong as violent rioters go against police and loot the city. Birmingham and Liverpool are reporting riots breaking out as well. Windows have been smashed, polices vans attacked, and cars set on fire in Hackney. Trains have stopped providing service at Hackney Central Station, whie buses are not operating in Lewisham or Peckham.
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron will cut a vacation trip short and return to London overnight to chair an emergency meeting regarding the mounting riots in the country, following the first incident in Tottenham on Saturday. Police cars and several business places have been set ablaze as the civil unrest continues to spread across London.
The riots that started in Tottenham have moved across London, then to Birmingham. They have now hit Liverpool.
Releasing genetically modified, spermless male mosquitoes into the wild could in future help to prevent malaria transmission and reduce the chances of large outbreaks of the killer disease, British scientists said on Monday.
