Police arrested six men in Birmingham, England overnight in what they called a pre-planned, intelligence-led counter-terror operation, they said Monday.
Footage of hooded thugs firing shots at police officers and a force helicopter during this month's riots has been released.
Police have released dramatic security camera footage they say shows masked and hooded rioters firing shots at unarmed officers and a police helicopter in the English city of Birmingham.
A man whose son died while trying to protect the family business from looters pleads with the Birmingham community.
The deaths of three men who residents say were mowed down by a car while protecting businesses from looters have heightened fears in Britain's second largest city.
I spent most of yesterday in Winson Green, Birmingham, following the deaths of three young British men in the early hours of the morning. I visited the small mosque where two of the men (brothers aged 32 and 30) had been regular worshippers, and where both their uncle and older brother were in a state of profound shock and grief.
Since the second half of the last century Birmingham has always had a rich ethnic mix: in the 1950s Caribbean immigrants came over to drive buses and trains as well as work in the factories, followed by Asians, largely from India and Pakistan, and in the 1970s, Ugandan refugees.
Since World War II waves of immigration have radically changed the ethnic makeup of Birmingham with thousands of West Indians and Asians arriving to work in Britain's industrial heartland.
Monstrosities, eyesores, nightmares of architecture -- call them what you like, ugly buildings are sadly all around us.
Bob Riley wanted to help. It was Sunday, Oct. 5, and the Alabama governor was on the phone with Neel Kashkari, a Treasury Department official who the next day would be named by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson as interim leader of the government's just-approved $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. But Riley couldn't wait for Kashkari's role to become official. He needed to impress upon the new bailout boss the seriousness of the exploding financial crisis in Jefferson County, home to Birmingham. Riley argued that it was urgent that the federal government come to the aid of his state - now.
Alabama's largest county appears headed for the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, a $3.2 billion mess created by the nation's credit crunch and a colossal, corruption-riddled sewer project
Research shows that about 1,000 Americans are hurt on golf carts every month. Males aged 10 to 19 and people over 80 had the highest injury rates
Two more teams fell out of the top 10 this week. Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks, Calf.) lost to giant-killer Birmingham (Van Nuys, Calif.) 28-21. Earlier this season, Birmingham knocked off then-No. 7 Poly (Long Beach, Calif.), and the Patriots enter this week's top 25 at No. 22. In Georgia, last week's No. 9, Roswell, suffered its first defeat, a 13-10 loss to Walton (Marieta, Ga.).
A UK court fined Cadbury Schweppes, the world's largest confectionery group, £1 million ($2 million) Monday for selling unsafe chocolate in Britain and Ireland during 2006 in a salmonella health scare.
A quick Mailbag before the Big Show. Check back on Friday for our Wimbledon seed reports.
SI.com: Second Chanceupdated: Tue May 15 2007 13:20:00
In his heyday Seve Ballesteros would periodicallygive us Statesiders a chanceto know him. Never amountedto much. He'd play our windlesscourses and eat our dull foodand retreat quickly to his homein Spain and to his tour in Europe,where he was king.
Meet Dr.Sanjay Gupta, CNN chief medical correspondent, during the U.S. tour for his new book "Chasing Life." Please continue to check this page which will be updated as new tour dates are added.
Five men have been charged under anti-terrorism laws after a series of police raids in the central English city of Birmingham last week, according to news reports.
Two men arrested last week in connection with a plot to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier were released without charges early Wednesday, police said.
Police have been granted more time to question nine men held over an alleged terrorist plot to carry out an Iraqi-style kidnapping and execution of a British Muslim soldier.
British police have arrested nine people who they say were planning an "Iraq-style" abduction inside Britain, a senior security source told CNN.
SI.com: Who's No. 1?updated: Wed Jan 10 2007 17:00:00
The BCS National Championship Game last Monday made millions of dollars for the two teams and their conferences -- just as millions more have been made from the myriad other bowls. This only encourages the myth that college sport is a financial bonanza. It isn't, of course. Only a handful of universities make any money. Usually it is more like the way it was last spring in Alabama when Jim Stephens, the chairman of the board of trustees at Birmingham Southern College, came to see the school president, David Pollick.
The postman didn't ring twice - he rang dozens of times. And thanks to a new technology developed by Swedish company Micro Systemation, a British postman who stole credit cards from the mail and us...
An Alabama church was destroyed early Saturday in a fire that authorities are calling suspicious.
Three Birmingham college students were arrested and charged Wednesday in connection with a string of Alabama church fires that is described in court papers as a joke that "got out of hand," authorities said.
RICHARD SCRUSHY'S $2.7 BILLION accounting-fraud trial looked like a slam-dunk for the prosecution. All five CFOs who had ever reported to the former HealthSouth CEO copped guilty pleas and agreed t...
Evacuation orders for the entertainment district of Britain's second-largest city were lifted Sunday morning after police conducted extensive searches of businesses in Birmingham's city center.
CNNMoney: Junk bonds boosterupdated: Fri Jun 24 2005 12:03:00
I'm 67 years old and planning to retire next year. I'm considering investing about $25,000 in a high-yield corporate bond fund to boost my retirement income. Do you think this is a good idea?
After the 2000 U.S. elections there was much sniggering in Britain about vote challenges, hanging chads as the U.S. political system initially failed to throw up a clear winner. British parliamentarians laughed at the cartoon of two Martians alighting from a spaceship in New York and asking a traffic cop "Well, when can you take me to your leader?"
The long, strange case of the United States v. Eric Robert Rudolph took a turn Wednesday into a hotel ballroom, where hundreds of prospective jurors joined a legal dance that could last through the fall.
British police have arrested a 19-year-old man under the country's terrorism act, according to a police spokeswoman.
The trial of accused bomber Eric Robert Rudolph will remain in Birmingham under a compromise agreement reached Tuesday by defense and prosecuting attorneys.
Serial bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph and his attorneys will argue in court Tuesday that his case should be moved because he cannot get a fair trial in Birmingham, where he is charged with bombing a women's clinic in 1998.
Prosecutors in the case against the man accused in a string of bombings filed a motion late Friday arguing he could get a fair trial in Birmingham, Alabama, in response to a defense motion asking for a change of venue.
Shortly after dawn on July 30, 2002, William A. Massey Jr. backed his GMC Yukon out of his driveway in a suburb of Birmingham and turned the wrong way down Weatherly Club Drive. Instead of heading ...
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The words "bar and grill" don't often inspire notions of fine dining. But Highlands Bar and Grill might be that exception that proves the rule. A Birmingham institution celebrating its 20th anniver...
World Wrestling Federation impresario Vince McMahon calls the NFL the "No Fun League," and so far everything about his WWF-style football spinoff, which debuts Feb. 3, seems Xtremely Fun. His game ...
Some industries just seem naturally to become magnets for greedheads and promoters. In the 1970s it was real estate. In the 1980s, S&Ls. And for a brief stretch this decade, it was the business of ...
Officials of a Labour-run council ((have)) egg on their collective face. Words such as "himself" or "herself" have long been taboo in their world, where sexism is one of the deadliest sins. Now eve...
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA -- Complaints have forced the University of Alabama to sideline the symbol of its athletic team, a rough-and-tumble Norseman who drew fire for being too mean, too masculine, and...
To most professional money managers, a single-digit price tag on a stock is a danger sign. Most likely the company has run into serious trouble, or it's a small firm not worth a securities analyst'...
ALBANY State government is still about the only game in town in this Northeastern city. No wonder it's not the best place for value; clerical wages are relatively high, and manufacturing wages are ...
Fortune: LBOs, R.I.P.?updated: Mon Mar 12 1990 00:01:00
It has been a lousy year so far for big leveraged buyouts of public corporations. Financial backers cooled on their earlier enthusiasm for two such deals, pulling the plug on LBOs of Philips Indust...
If you spent the 1980s telling anyone who would listen about your house's amazing appreciation, you had better find a new line of cocktail-party patter. Reason: prices of existing single-family hom...
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