A London taxi cab driver who systematically drugged and sexually assaulted female passengers was sentenced to at least eight years in prison Tuesday.

Try hailing a cab in this car-centric town and you’re likely to be left standing on a curb, waving your arm like a fool in a cloud of exhaust.

Many of the thousands of New Yorkers laid off in the financial crisis have turned to driving taxis, but now there are too many drivers and not enough cabs.

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About 300 taxi drivers went on strike in a southern Chinese city, smashing cars and demanding a crackdown on unlicensed taxis in the latest protest against illegal taxi competition in China.

A few hundred taxi drivers went on strike Wednesday in a southwestern Chinese district to protest a proposed increase in the number of cabs operating there, state media reported.

Police detained 21 people for smashing taxicabs during the latest taxi strike to hit China as more drivers took to the streets Tuesday to protest high costs and competition from illegal cabs.

Authorities in southwestern China have agreed to resolve some of the complaints behind a violent strike by taxi drivers angered by high fees and fuel shortages, state media reported Tuesday.

Taxi operators have sued the city over requiring yellow cabs to go green, saying cars that run on a mix of gasoline and electric power can’t handle the workout they would get on New York City streets.

Mexico has deployed hundreds of federal police to try to quell a dispute between taxi drivers and tour van operators in the popular beach resort of Cabo San Lucas.