Britain set out Monday its plans to commemorate the centenary of World War I, including international acts of remembrance, cultural events and battlefield visits for English schoolchildren. The commemorations begin on August 4 next year with a service for Commonwealth leaders at Glasgow Cathedral, a candlelit vigil in London's Westminster Abbey and an event at the St Symphorien Military Cemetery in Belgium.

British police shot and wounded two men after a man thought to be a serving soldier was killed outside a London barracks, in an attack Prime Minister David Cameron called "truly shocking". In a dramatic move, the government's emergency response committee was being summoned following the killing which some eyewitness reports suggested was an attempted beheading using machete-like knives. Some early reports suggested the attack might be Islamist-related, although there was no official confirmation.

Skateboarders soar out of the concrete bowl beneath London's Southbank Centre, as they have done for the past 40 years, while spectators drink beer and hiphop beats stoke up the party atmosphere. But this is no party -- it's a protest. These knights of the pavement are jousting with authorities to save one of the world's most iconic skateparks from being converted into a stretch of chain stores and cafes.

By Shadia Nasralla LONDON (Reuters) - American conductor Marin Alsop is to become the first woman in 118 years to lead the Last Night of the Proms, the grand finale of Britain's leading classical music festival which includes a punk band and gospel choirs in its line-up. Details of the 2013 BBC Proms were unveiled on Thursday, with the festival involving 92 concerts over two months to appeal to a wide audience with chamber music, TV theme tunes, gospel choirs and punk veterans The Stranglers set to perform.