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British police are reviewing security plans for Sunday's London Marathon, the next major international marathon, because of the deadly bombs that hit the race in Boston....

After making headlines around the world for handing over a suspect to police, the identity of Britain's mysterious caped crusader has been revealed as Stan, a take-out food delivery man.

Rupert Murdoch protégé Rebekah Brooks was charged Tuesday with conspiracy over alleged illegal payments to a Ministry of Defence employee, London's Metropolitan Police said Tuesday.

One of two Olympic bronze medals that were stolen from a nightclub in London has been recovered, police say.

The head of Scotland's largest police force says he has "no doubt" there are individuals in his force "in receipt of money from various people".

Police investigating Britain's phone-hacking scandal made another arrest Friday, keeping up the pressure on Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Officers from Scotland Yard arrested a 47-year-old woman early Friday morning in Essex, a county just east of London. Police said she was the 17th person to be arrested as part of Operation Weeting, the official investigation into phone hacking.

A man is raped after being attacked while walking along a footpath in Southampton, prompting a police investigation.

Swiss banking giant UBS said Thursday that a rogue trader has caused it an estimated loss of $2 billion, stunning a beleaguered banking industry that has proven vulnerable to unauthorized trades. Police in London said they arrested a 31-year-old UBS trader, Kweku Adoboli, in the alleged fraud. UBS declined to confirm his name.

Two men have been jailed for four years each in northwest England for inciting disorder via social networking sites as rioting and looting erupted in London and other cities last week, police said Tuesday.

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.