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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.

British authorities urged for calm early Sunday, hours after demonstrators in north London burned police cars, and set a bus and buildings ablaze to protest the death of a local man.

International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge puts London 2012's readiness for the Games on a par with Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008.

One by one, the lulz are coming to an end. Scotland Yard announced Wednesday that it had arrested a 19-year-old it claims is a core member of the hacker group LulzSec who goes by the name “Topiary.” The young hacktivist was captured in a home in the Shetland Islands off the northeast coast of Great Britain, and taken to London for questioning.

Friends and family were saying goodbye to Amy Winehouse Tuesday at a private funeral ceremony in London.

A book chronicling a Chinese tragedy under Mao has won Britain's richest nonfiction book award, the Samuel Johnson Prize. Frank Dikotter's "Mao's Great Famine" won the 20,000 pound ($32,000) award at a ceremony in London on Wednesday.

Lionel Messi broke a 1-1 tie with his 53rd goal as Barcelona topped Manchester United 3-1 Saturday in the Champions League final at Wembley Stadium in London.

Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa has defected upon landing in London, a close source to the minister told Reuters on Wednesday.

There's still a month to go until the royal wedding and yet some Britons are already asking: Is it over yet?

More than 250,000 people took to London's streets to protest the toughest spending cuts since World War II - one of the largest demonstrations since the Iraq war - as riot police clashed with a small groups. More than 200 people were arrested.