These may be the dog days of August--traditionally a slow point in the news cycle--but three very big, very different news stories in three very different parts of the world this week have interrupted ...

We can dispense with some mistakes, though. It is wrong to say that the riots are apolitical. The trouble began on Saturday night when protesters gathered at Tottenham police station to demand that ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. In case you weren’t sure whether to retreat into your bunker yet, this should pretty much seal the deal ...

A 26-year-old shot in a car in south London is the first fatality in Britain's intensifying riots, Reuters reports. British Prime Minister David Cameron has deployed 16,000 police officers to quell ...

As the U.K. reflects on its recent bout of riots--with analysts searching for lessons and Prime Minister David Cameron declaring a "war on gangs"--Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism is ...