NYC Police Arrest 250 in Bicycle Protest
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Nearly 250 bicyclists were arrested during a mass protest that passed Madison Square Garden Friday night, the first major police crackdown on demonstrators just days before a wave of activists were expected to descend for the Republican National Convention.
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Two policemen were injured and three protesters arrested as thousands marched under tight security through Sydney on Saturday in a protest against visiting US President George W. Bush and the Iraq war.
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Human rights and anti-globalization activists gathered in the Finnish capital after police detained more than 100 people at an anarchist protest.
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Police detained up to 300 people Saturday after violent clashes broke out during a protest against court rulings to evict a group of squatters from a downtown Copenhagen building, witnesses and officials said.
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Tyler Hamilton, the American bicycle racer who won a gold medal in the individual time trial at the Olympics last month in Athens, is suspected of receiving illegal performance
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Dozens of people are arrested as police fight with protesters during a general strike in Bangladesh.
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Danish police arrested 263 people on  Sunday after violent clashes during a protest over the closure  of a youth center in Copenhagen.
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More than 50,000 riot police have been mobilised across South Korea to enforce a ban on mass protests against a proposed US free trade deal, after the government last week vowed zero tolerance for violent rallies.
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Belgian police arrest at least 30 people after rioting in a mainly immigrant suburb of Brussels.
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More than 150,000 people took to the streets to protest planned cuts to social benefits in what police described as the largest anti-government demonstrations in the Netherlands in 20 years.
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Thousands of cyclists brought traffic in midtown Manhattan to a virtual standstill in the first significant protest ahead of the Republican convention at which President George
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Authorities announced one of the biggest counterfeit luxury-goods busts in U.S. history on Thursday, with the arrests of three New Yorkers on charges of importing fake items from China worth about $100 million had they been real.
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Danish police arrested 263 people on   Sunday after violent clashes during a protest over the closure   of a youth center in Copenhagen.
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Youths angered at a court decision to evict squatters from a downtown building hurled stones, bottles and eggs at police during a protest Sunday. More than 200 were detained.
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New York Police arrested more than 900 people late on Tuesday as anti-Bush activists blocked traffic, staged anti-war protests and harassed Republican delegates on the second day of a convention to nominate President Bush to a second term.
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NEW YORK - Republican National Convention protesters waved symbolic pink slips along a three-mile "unemployment line," labor unions demanded better treatment of workers and a group of AIDS activists infiltrated Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, as arrest totals soared beyond 1,700 for the past week.    The arrests, including several on Wednesday, far surpass those made in much more violent circumstances at Chicago's 1968 Democratic convention...
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The city's bid to force cyclists to obtain permits before their monthly bicycle rally through Manhattan was dismissed Thursday by a federal judge.