A man who scaled the UK Parliament’s historic “Big Ben” clock tower with a Palestinian flag has been arrested, police said. The man, who was barefoot and wearing all black, clung ...

Traffic around the Palace of Westminster in London came to a standstill for much of Saturday as emergency crews tried to reach a man who climbed the Big Ben tower holding a Palestinian flag.

London's Metropolitan Police force, which was first alerted to the climber around 0700 GMT Saturday, said the man was arrested after the "protracted incident". The man spent the day perched barefoot ...