A youth kicks the window of a jewellery store near the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham. (AP Photo/PA, David Jones)
A youth is arrested for a public order offence following skirmishes with police in Camden Town, north London. (AP Photo/David Azia)
Firefighters fight a blaze at a Sony wharehouse that was allegedly set alight during unrest in Enfield, North London. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
Police arrest a man for looting in Clapham Junction in south London. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson)
A man is removed from an electronic shop in handcuffs after being arrested for looting, in south London. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson)
A riot police officer stands next to a bus damaged by rioters in Hackney, east London. (AP Photo/PA, Lewis Whyld)
A man cycles away as police officers charge rioters in Hackney, east London. Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
People watch the unrest from their window in Hackney. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
A youth tries to make his point to police officers. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
A car, behind the taxi, burns after it was set on fire by rioters in Hackney. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
A police officer deployed during riots in Hackney. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
Violence and looting has spread from London across the UK, and authorities are struggling to contain the country's most serious unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s.
AP photographers have been capturing the unrest.
