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The number of arrests has reached more than 1,900 and about half have been charged, most of them in London.

Full moon may interfere with the spectacle

Miliband links the rioting and looting to other lapses in morality, including the banking crisis and the recent scandal involving MP?s fraudulent expenses.

A third installment of the "Bridget Jones" movies has been given a go-ahead by the production company, Working Title FilmsWorking Title Films will continue producing the films, as it was responsible for the previous two "Bridget Jones Diary" in 2001 and "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" in 2004. The films are based on a Helen Fielding's novel and starred Renee Zellweger as Bridget.

The New York police name the head of new social media unit.

Courts around Britain were struggling on Thursday to cope with a huge influx of people arrested during this week's riots, including a millionaire's daughter, a charity worker and a woman who handed herself in after suffering pangs of guilt.

Bratton was credited with reducing crime in Los Angeles following the devastating riots of April 1992.

The Perseid Meteor Shower will approach its peak tonight, during the overnight hours of Aug. 12 and Aug. 13, most viewable at approximately 2 a.m.

Much of the violence has occurred in inner-city neighborhoods populated by the descendants of immigrants from the former British Empire

After hundreds of arrests this week, England and Wales now have 85,324 prison inmates, fewer than 2,000 below capacity.

European stock markets rallied on Friday as a ban on the short-selling of financial shares tempted investors back into the battered banking sector, although concerns over the health of French banks kept the mood edgy and trading remained volatile.

He suffered head injuries in a brutal attack on Monday evening and was left in a coma.

Mining company European Goldfields, which secured a long-awaited Greek permit last month, posted a narrower pretax loss for the second quarter and said it had made "major progress" with its Olympias project, on track for first production next year.

As the sun sets tonight, get set to gaze at a battle in the sky between the most popular sky shows Perseid meteor shower and the big, full moon to showcase who is the best.

As London youths rampaged through districts of the UK capital for three nights, British people copied the looters? tactics on Wednesday by starting to clean up shopping streets littered with debris from a night of looting.

Talk about inflation. In 1977, when English soccer club Liverpool sold two-time European player of the year Kevin Keegan to Hamburg they charged the German club a 500,000 pound transfer fee.

Thousands of Chinese took to the streets of a southwestern town on Thursday, with some smashing police vehicles in the latest protest by citizens angered by the rough handling of local officials, according to news reports.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron promised Thursday to crack down on street gangs, saying "the fightback has well and truly begun" against those who rioted across Britain.

European stock markets rose on Friday as a ban on short-selling financial shares prompted investors to creep back into battered banking shares, although concerns over the health of French banks kept the mood edgy.

Thousands of residents of a town in southwest China took to the streets Thursday, smashing police vehicles in the latest protest by citizens angered by the rough handling of local officials, according to news reports.

Three teenagers have been arrested for the riotous fire that tore through Sony's Digital Audio Disc Corporation warehouse in north London Monday, destroying more than 1.5 million CDs, BBC reports.