Riots spread through U.K. cities

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

LONDON -- A chaotic wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities early today, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s.

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