Metropolitan Police

An acid attack occurred on Monday against a 14-year-old girl in London – outside the school she attends – and a 16-year-old who was with her, which left the girl and a school worker seriously injured.

The girl remains in hospital with potentially “life-changing” injuries to her health and appearance.

A 32-year-old woman is in a life-threatening condition in the hospital following a stabbing at the Notting Hill carnival, according to the Metropolitan Police, as reported by "The Guardian". On Sunday, the police reported three separate stabbings during the annual West London event.

A night of troubles in three British cities which saw dozens of arrests forced Prime Minister Keir Starmer to convence an emergency meeting with police leaders on Thursday.

Far-right elements have staged protests which have seen cars burned and crowds outside Starmer's official residence since a mass stabbing in a seaside town on Monday in which three small girls were killed.

U.K. police said Friday that no investigation has been launched into Prince Andrew after an anti-monarchy group filed a complaint based on recently released U.S. court documents detailing people linked to accused sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday condemned far-right protesters and Hamas sympathisers, as hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian supporters marched through London calling for a ceasefire in Israel's war in Gaza.

Two Just Stop Oil protesters in their twenties attacked the painting that suffragette Mary Richardson slashed in 1914, the group said in a statement.

"At around 10:45 a.m. Hanan, 22, and Harrison, 20, used safety hammers to smash the glass covering the Rokeby Venus," said the group, which is demanding a halt to all new oil and gas projects in the U.K.

The UK justice minister on Thursday promised that a former soldier awaiting trial on terrorism charges would be hunted down, after he made an audacious escape from prison.

Daniel Abed Khalife fled from Wandsworth prison in south London on Wednesday morning, probably by clinging to the bottom of a delivery van.

A driver hit and killed a child on a pedestrian path in the center of Sofia.

Witnesses to the incident told BNT that shortly after 9 p.m., a boy was crossing the pedestrian crossing on "General Gurko" and "Tsar Ivan Shishman" streets when he was swept away by a speeding car.

The number of artifacts that have disappeared from the British Museum is estimated at 2,000, chairman of trustees George Osborne said on Aug. 26, admitting the collection did not have a complete catalogue.

The U.K.'s former chancellor described the missing pieces as "small items of jewelry, gems, bits of gold that were not on public display."

Three climate activists appeared in a London court on Oct. 15 on charges of criminal damage after protests including throwing soup over Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting in the National Gallery.