British police officers stand guard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London on Aug. 16, 2012, after Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced that he had granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (Associated Press)
British police officers stand guard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in central London on Aug. 16, 2012, after Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced that he had granted political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (Associated Press)
British police, headquartered at New Scotland Yard in London, on Monday arrested a dozen men suspected of plotting a large-scale terror attack. (AP Photo)
A man tells British police about rioters trying to vandalize a shop this month in London's Hackney area. Youths set fire to stores and vehicles in several neighborhoods in the city — which will host the 2012 Summer Olympics — and often were able to flee before police arrived. (Associated Press)
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS People loot a shop (left) in the east London borough of Hackney on Monday. Rioting in London continued for a third day, spreading throughout the city after a peaceful protest Saturday turned violent. More than 200 people have been arrested, and 35 police officers have been injured. British police officers arrest a man (above) as rioters gather in Croydon, south London, on Monday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS People loot a shop in the east London borough of Hackney on Monday. Rioting in London continued for a third day, spreading throughout the city after a peaceful protest Saturday turned violent. More than 200 people have been arrested, and 35 police officers have been injured. British police officers arrest a man (below) as rioters gathered in Croydon, south London, on Monday.
Mounted police patrol near Parliament in London on Monday, May 16, 2011, after British police received a bomb threat from a dissident Irish republican group ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's sensitive trip to Ireland on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation Texas fisherwoman, her face smeared with syrup to represent oil, protests against BP as British police officers prevent her from entering the London conference center where the petroleum giant held the annual general meeting of its shareholders Thursday. "I think a lot of the shrimpers are concerned," she said. (Associated Press)
British police, headquartered at New Scotland Yard in London, on Monday arrested a dozen men suspected of plotting a large-scale terror attack. (AP Photo)
