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Laura Johnson sent to prison for two years for her role in an "orgy of looting" during last summer's London riots.

While the more raucous riots have held the spotlight, across the province a more festive form of dissent has also taken hold

GOING back to what he does best, director David Cronenberg takes a visceral day-trip inside the cushioned limousine of a tycoon who cares little for the bloody, populist riots that explode outside his car in Cosmopolis.

Exeter University student Laura Johnson (pictured), 20, will now swap her parents' £1 million country pile with extensive grounds and tennis courts in Orpington, Kent, for a jail cell.

Going back to what he does best, David Cronenberg takes a visceral day-trip inside the cushioned limousine of a tycoon who cares little for the bloody, populist riots that explode outside his car in "Cosmopolis."

A millionaire's daughter who drove looters around London during the 2011 riots is jailed for two years.

This June marks forty two years of Pride Parades in New York City, and AOL's Out at AOL club is getting involved in the latest,...

Violent race riots that shook southern Tel Aviv overnight sparked shock in Israel yesterday but also prompted top-level calls for the immediate arrest and expulsion of tens of thousands of African migrants.

Surging street violence against African migrants in Israel, including a rampage that an Israeli broadcaster dubbed a “pogrom,” drew statements of empathy for the rioters as well as censure from the government on Thursday.

Violent race riots shook southern Tel Aviv overnight, prompting top-level calls for the immediate arrest and expulsion of tens of thousands of African migrants

On one end of the spectrum, networks like Twitter and Facebook have acted as catalysts to organizing events like the Arab Spring or the riots of London. On the other end of that spectrum, networks like Yelp or Foursquare tee up user generated reviews, tips and public-facing profiles. Somewhere in between all that falls hownow, an iPhone app-based social network that lets users publish messages ...

In 1992, the group released the rollickingly irreverent 'Bizarre Ride.' The quintessential album's being celebrated with a box set, a reunion show and more. In the haze of memory, it's easy to assume that the Pharcyde's debut, "Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde," came out at some time other than the fall of 1992. So much of L.A. hip-hop that year was dominated by the riots ...

A Metropolitan Police officer denies racially abusing a suspect after the summer riots in London last year.

PC Alex MacFarlane chooses to be tried by crown court jury over allegations of racially aggravated harassmentA Scotland Yard officer has denied racially abusing a suspect after the summer riots.PC Alex MacFarlane elected to be tried by a crown court jury as he appeared before magistrates.The 52-year-old was granted bail to appear again at Southwark crown court on 29 June.Suited MacFarlane, wear...

LONDON (AP) -- British police will deploy around 12,500 officers to protect the Olympics after being condemned for their lack of manpower and slow response to last year's U.K. riots....

Shakir Noor Less than a year after the start of the Arab uprisings, Algeria appears insulated from political upheavals experienced by other countries of North Africa, such as Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco. Algeria experienced nationwide riots in early January 2011 and in the context of the Arab Spring, several members of civil society and historical personalities have raised the prospect of...

What would happen to Greece if it quit the euro? Financial chaos, capital flight, riots and bank failures... maybe. But after the apocalypse, Greece would eventually revert to its 1960's status: a poor but proud nation living off tourism, shipping, agriculture and fishing.

An "appalling" failure to provide help to tens of thousands of mothers a year suffering depression or emotional problems could be a major cause of last year's riots, leading scientists and politicians will warn today.

The Chicago Police Department has reportedly been hacked in advance of the NATO Summit in the city this weekend. Thousands of protesters are expected to show up, and the police are bracing themselves for riots. Why travel to Chicago when you can protest from the comfort of your home? More »

On Tuesday, May 15th, the State Duma discussed the events that took place in Moscow on May 6th, when the authorized action of the opposition in the center of Moscow developed into mass riots and clashes with riot police. There were only OMON police officers (riot police) hospitalized as a result of the clashes

Every three-hour riot costs Muhammed Muhuna, an Issawiya store-owner approximately NIS 1,000.

A controversial report into a 2002 Gujarat riots case says that a murdered Muslim Indian politician may have "provoked" a "violent mob".

At least 41 people wounded in riots between police and protesters demanding long-delayed parliamentary elections.

The beating death of a fan during riots has put the spotlight on the nation's systemic youth problems.

Vladimir Putin returned to power amid riots from demonstrators outside the Kremlin and questions over how he will handle a changed Russia.

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakh copper miner Kazakhmys agreed on Sunday to raise wages if about 300 workers call off an underground protest that has unnerved authorities in the Central Asian state following deadly riots in an oil town.

A Palestinian female riots police unit deals with female law-breakers in one of the most conservative cities in the West Bank.

L.A. Now Live with city editor Shelby Grad Crime is down in South Los Angeles since the L.A. riots. But by economic measures, conditions have gotten worse. We look at the dichotomy today at 9 a.m. with Times reporters Ricardo...

The documentary “Uprising,” on VH1, posits that hip-hop foretold the events of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and that it continued to reference them afterward.

In 1988, the West Coast hip-hop group N.W.A released a provocative song called "F**k tha Police," which stirred controversy and marked it as one of the most high-profile examples of tension between the black community in Los Angeles and authorities.

L.A.'s Police Department had a civic duty 'to protect and to serve'; on April 29, 1992, it did neither.The Los Angeles riots represented the culmination of many failures: the failure to provide hope for young people; the failure to supply education and jobs in the numbers that would stabilize communities; the failure to engage those communities in their own protection instead of relying on hars...

The eve of the 20th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots finds residents' feelings about the police department and about relations among the races in the city much more positive.

20 years after the verdict and riots that rocked Los Angeles and the nation, strains over race and justice still linger.

Crime and disorder similar to Britain's 2011 summer riots are the most likely serious threats to the London Olympics although Islamist militants and al Qaeda offshoot groups pose a growing challenge, a British official said on Wednesday.

In 1992, the acquittal of white police officers in the Rodney King beating inflamed racial tensions in South Los Angeles, a center of black culture. Today, Latinos are the majority.

It's been 20 years since the Rodney King verdict ignited the L.A. riots ... so Rodney himself helped us celebrate mark the anniversary. Ahh ... memories. Check out TMZ on TV -- click here to see your local listings!

Die russische Justiz hat die Untersuchungshaft gegen die Punkband Pussy Riot bis Ende Juni verlängert. Die drei Frauen sollen die Kanzel einer Kirche gestürmt und gegen Wladimir Putin gewettert haben. Ihnen drohen sieben Jahre Haft.

I’m always surprised, in my conversations with conservatives, how often they distill the deficit down to a simple question: Do you really want the United States to go the way of Europe? Interestingly, I’m now hearing it from liberals, too. Robert Borosage, director of the Campaign for America’s Future, warns, “Take a good look at Europe — bloody riots in Athens and Madrid, rising unemployment, ...

A local court on Wednesday acquitted 40 accused, including senior BJP leaders, in the first ever communal riots case in the state, which had occurred in the twin towns of Curchorem-Sanvordem in 2006.

New research has analysed the mood of Twitter users in the UK and detected various changes in the mood of the public. In particular, the researchers observed a significant increase in negative mood, anger and fear, coinciding with the announcement of spending cuts and last summer's riots together with a possibly calming effect during the royal wedding.

Macedonia’s riot police have clashed with stone-throwing youths angry at the murder last week of five men near the capital Skopje.

The Serbian police have detained nine people accused of setting fire to the United States Embassy in Belgrade in 2008 during riots against Kosovo’s independence.

While there isn’t an end in sight for the legal battle over the 2002 Gujarat riots, the chances of Narendra Modi gaining a clear image seems to be far from a reality.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Serbian police have detained nine people accused of setting fire to the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade in 2008 during riots against Kosovo's independence and were searching Wednesday for at least five more suspects....

A looter has been jailed for 11-and-a-half years for starting a huge fire that destroyed a 140-year-old furniture shop during last summer’s London riots.

The lighting that Jeff Glass designed for Ike Holter’s “Hit the Wall” (at the Steppenwolf Garage, in Chicago) is so authoritative that it feels like a set in itself. With chiaroscuro effects, Glass evokes a night and a very early morning in New York in June . . . (Subscription required.)

Ohio Gov. John Kasich said on Sunday that Washington politicians should move quickly on reforming popular entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security — or risk riots in the street like in Greece. "We don't want to be Greece. We don't want to be places where people are rioting because we waited so long to get things fixed, we're pulling the rug from under them," the Republican governo...

Tariq Jahan (pictured), from Winson Green in Birmingham, has been found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm in a road road attack last July.

Protests over Greece’s austerity measures have happened yards away from the Presidential Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, complicating the soldiers’ ceremonial work.

Lexington Professional Firefighters IAFF Local 526 sends pictures and stats from the riots in real time, with help of local media

FORMER Stone Roses guitarist Aziz Ibrahim's second album was inspired by racism, recession and riots

Tweet Widget Facebook Like Egypt’s military courts have investigated or tried at least 43 children over the past year,including the pending trial of 13-year-old Ahmed Hamdy Abdel Aziz in connection with the Port Said football riots. (New York) – Egypt’s military courts have investigated or tried at least 43 children over the past year, Hu...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Reuters) - Flash mobs have been blamed as a factor in looting during urban riots. But now a group of online activists is harnessing social media like Twitter and Facebook to get consumers to spend at locally owned stores in cities around the world in so-called Cash Mobs.

Amateur footage shows riots in Port Said in Egypt over the two-season ban of football club Al-Masry.

So foolish. And now look what's happened. Jamie Waylett, who is best known for playing Vincent Crabbe in six of the eight Harry Potter films, has been sentenced to two years in jail for being part of a small gang that took part in the London riots last August! He was found guilty by jury of [...]

The British actor who played bully Vincent Crabbe in the "Harry Potter" movies was jailed for two years Tuesday after he was convicted of violent disorder during the London riots in August last year.

There's no wizardly spell to get out of this one. Jamie Waylett, the actor who played Slytherin cohort Vincent Crabbe in the Harry Potter films, was found guilty of violent disorder...

Never mind the riots, the fratricides, the burned holy books and the bloody slaughter of civilians. The commander of the Afghanistan war believes the decade-long conflict is "on track."

Officials ppd., Panathinaikos and Pireaus match on Sunday after riots break out

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - King George Tupou V of Tonga, who introduced democracy to the South Pacific archipelago after riots following his ascension in 2006, died in a Hong Kong hospital on Sunday, the Tongan government said on Monday.

A 17-year-old boy admitted today that he killed a pensioner in London during last summer’s riots.

At least five American military personnel could face a disciplinary review over the burning of Qurans at a US base in Afghanistan as conflicting accounts of what happened emerged Saturday, fueling more confusion over the incident that sparked six days of deadly riots across the nation.

Extremadura premier escorted out of university building after demonstration

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is sticking determinedly to its stay-the-course message in Afghanistan despite a week of anti-American riots, the point-blank killing of U.S. military advisers and growing election-year demands to bring the troops home....

Attacks on Nato soldiers and riots over the burning of copies of the Koran at a US base raise questions over Washington exit strategy

by VENKATESWARAN CHITTOOR VENKATSUBRAMANIAN Narendra Modi is the most talked about man in the media. He has greater ambitions than what his present status is which is amplified by his supporters and a crop of new leaders in BJP orchestrated by RSS and the other sangh parivar outfits. Modi was a non descript leader prior to 2002 and the Godhra incidents and post Godhra riots called ethnic cle...

London's police have begun a crackdown on street gangs which UK politicians blamed for the August riots, the worst disorder Britain saw in decades.

Tibetans reject recent acts of violence and message of division.

Violence continues in Egypt as thousands march in protest Three people were killed in Egypt in clashes with Central Security Forces as protests continued over Wednesday's deadly football riots. Two protesters were reported killed by live fire in the city of Suez, while one death was reported in Cairo from shotgun fire as police attempted to break up a crowd storming the interior mi...

During an emergency assembly of the Egyptian parliament on Thursday morning, the decision was taken to dismiss FA president Samir Zaher and all of his staff.

Egyptian Football Association dissolved and referred for questioning by prime minister after 74 die in riots.

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's benchmark stock index fell plunged within minutes of the start of trade Thursday as deadly soccer riots the night before left 74 dead and rekindled fears of fresh instability akin to the unrest that has battered the country and its economy in the year since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak....

The chief minister of India's Gujarat state will not have to appear before a panel investigating deadly riots there in 2002, a court rules.

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - A video-link speech by Salman Rushdie to Asia's largest literature festival was cancelled minutes before it was due to begin on Tuesday because of death threats to the organizers and fears of riots by Muslim groups.

DARREN CAMPBELL fears there will be more riots if 2012 fails to inspire kids

With riots, financial turmoil and disappointing weather, 2011 has had its fair share of bleak moments. But the year has also given us plenty to smile about.

As the year draws to a close, Sportsmail takes a look back at 2011 to remind you what happened over the last action-packed 12 months. August saw England whitewash India in the cricket and the London riots wrecked havoc with the fixture list.

Delivering his Christmas Day sermon from Canterbury Cathedral, Dr Rowan Williams today spoke of the 'broken bonds and abused trust' in a British society torn apart by riots and financial speculation.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AFP) - The Kazakh authorities Thursday replaced the governor of an oil-rich Caspian Sea region that was hit by riots in which at least 16 people died in clashes with security forces. “Former interior minister and Senator Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov has replaced Krymbek Kusherbayev at the post of Mangistau region governor,” the foreign ministry’s official spokesman said on his Tw...

A study has explored the dynamics behind social network sites in recruiting and spreading calls for action that contribute to mass mobilizations in riots, revolutions and protests.

AKTAU, Kazakhstan (AFP) - Several thousand people protested in Kazakhstan on Monday against what they said was state-triggered violence which claimed at least 15 lives in the oil-rich Mangistau region. About 3,000 people including oil workers gathered in the regional centre of Aktau on the Caspian Sea, urging authorities to… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

After Stanley Cup riots, Vancouver residents had about as much at stake as the B.C. Lions players heading into the Grey Cup

Firing incident has killed two people while injured another on M A Jinnah road in Karachi, report said on Sunday. According to the MLO Civil Hospital, both the deceased were scouts. Riots broke out soon after the incident when angry mob torched several motorbikes and cars. Sources claimed that Rangers have arrested an accused involved in the killing of two people, however Rangers were facing pr...

Riots, floods, a falling pound and the rise of internet-savvy travellers have all hit Thomas Cook hard, reports Nick Trend.

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In the summer and fall of last year, the Greek financial crisis tore at the seams of the global economy. Having run up a debt that it would never be able to repay, the country faced a number of potential outcomes, all unpleasant. Efforts to slash spending spurred riots in the streets of Athens, while threats of default rattled global financial markets. Many economists argued that Greece should ...