Demonstrators protesting against caricatures of Islam's Prophet Mohammed set fire to a building housing the Danish mission in Beirut. Security forces shot tear gas into the crowd and fired their weapons in the air to push the protesters back. Some 2,000 army troops and riot police were deployed around the embassy building in the district of Ashrafieh, close to Beirut's commercial district. Unbridled violence Thousands of demonstrators took part in the protest against publication of caricatures of Islam's revered prophet in European newspapers. The protest quickly degenerated into violence when groups of Islamic extremists tried to break through the security...