Fears that the ouster of Hosni Mubarak would upend the uneasy peace between Egypt and Israel? Consider them validated.
After a mob stormed the Israeli embassy in Cairo Friday, the U.S. quickly attempted to intercede, urging Egyptian officials to help put down the riot. But damage is done, with the Israeli diplomatic staff evacuated from the city, and renewed fears all over that two of the region's most powerful countries may soon be at odds as they have not in years.
When you need to show your displeasure with the local government or with your favorite sports team when it loses ... or wins ... or ties the big game, there's no clearer way to do it than by destroying your immediate surroundings.
What we're trying to say is that humans don't need much of an excuse to start rioting. And in fact, as these stories prove, we really don't need any excuse at all ...
A group of intrepid advertising interns has launched a campaign to help save the livelihood of an elderly barber whose London shop was destroyed by rioters.
While British Prime Minister David Cameron threatens to shut down social networks to help stop future citizen uprisings, an online word-of-mouth campaign has helped an elderly barber, who’s business was destroyed by rioters, get back on his feet.
Started by a trio of creative interns at the renowned London advertising agency BBH, the Keep Aaron Cutting campaign aims to help 89-year-old hair-cutter Aaron Biber rebuild his barbershop after looters ransacked his establishment, which he has owned and operated in London’s Tottenham neighborhood for 41 years.
Authorities in Iran have slammed the British government for its "violent repression" of rioting youths and have offered to send a human rights delegation to the UK to investigate.
In comments carried by the country's state news agency Irna, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hit out at the UK's "killing and brutal beating" of "the opposition."
The government is exploring whether to turn off social networks or stop people texting during times of social unrest.
David Cameron said the intelligence services and the police were exploring whether it was "right and possible" to cut off those plotting violence.
Texting and Blackberry Messenger are said to have been used by some during this week's riots.
Rights groups said such a measure would be abused and hit the civil liberties of people who have done nothing wrong.
From Constantinople to LA, riots have been with us as long as human civilization could raise a fist. Here’s eleven worst case scenarios come true.
Yet no matter what the reason for the uprising, when the smoke clears and human beings have become reduced to statistics, it’s clear that the cause of a riot almost never justifies the cost of senseless brutality.
The limitations of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
A brazen thug is caught on camera torching a Miss Selfridge store and causing a High Street inferno.
The hooded yob watches from just yards away while the red dress in the window goes up in flames, unaware that he is being filmed as the whole store front rapidly catches fire.
The callous yob set the store alight as hundreds of youths went on the rampage in Manchester city centre last night.
Today an 18-year-old suspect was arrested on suspicion of arson this afternoon outside the boarded up store - after allegedly going back to have a look at what he had done.
