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  • New Scotland Yard is the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, Britain's foremost and largest police service. (Associated Press)

    London police say they may move from New Scotland Yard

    It's not in Scotland. And it's missing a front yard. But anyone who has read a Sherlock Holmes novel can tell you that Scotland Yard equals London police.


  • World Briefs: Japanese ships confronted again near disputed islands

    Chinese patrol boats confronted Japanese vessels near a disputed East China Sea archipelago early Tuesday, the latest in a series of such encounters after Tokyo's nationalization of the islands last month.


  • Reports: UK rocker arrested as part of Savile case

    Police investigating child sex abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter on Sunday, British media reported, raising further questions about whether Savile was at the center of a broader pedophile ring.


  • Reports: UK rocker arrested as part of Savile case

    Police investigating child sex abuse allegations against the late BBC television host Jimmy Savile arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter on Sunday, British media reported, raising further questions about whether Savile was at the center of a broader pedophile ring.


  • ** FILE ** British performer Gary Glitter gives a press conference in London in 2000. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

    Gary Glitter: U.K. police arrest ex-glam rock star in abuse scandal, reports say

    The sex abuse scandal surrounding the late BBC children's television host Jimmy Savile widened on Sunday as police arrested former glam rock star and convicted sex offender Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said.


  • ** FILE ** TV host Jimmy Savile (right) poses for photographers with a wax model at Madame Tussauds museum in London in 1986. (AP Photo/John Redman)

    U.K. police: 300 potential Savile abuse victims

    Disgraced BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile was investigated in the 1980s over an allegation of indecent assault, police said Thursday as they announced that 300 potential victims had come forward so far with abuse accusations against the late TV host.


  • 300 potential abuse victims emerge in BBC scandal

    The scale of the child sex abuse scandal engulfing the BBC expanded on Thursday as authorities announced that 300 potential victims had come forward with accusations against one of the broadcaster's most popular children's entertainers and that others might have acted with him.


  • UK: 300 potential Savile abuse victims emerge

    The scale of the child sex abuse scandal engulfing the BBC expanded on Thursday as authorities announced that 300 potential victims had come forward with accusations against one of the broadcaster's most popular children's entertainers and that others might have acted with him.


  • World Briefs: Occupy London activists stage cathedral protest

    Several supporters of the anti-corporate Occupy movement chained themselves to the pulpit of St. Paul's Cathedral during a service on Sunday in an action marking the anniversary of the group's now-dismantled protest camp outside the London landmark.


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