4 dead, 20 wounded in attack near UK Parliament
In a briefing, Metropolitan police commander B.J. Harrington said the attack at Parliament was declared a terrorist incident and that a counterterrorism investigation was underway.
UK petition to ban Donald Trump gets more than 300,000 signatures
A petition to ban Donald Trump from the UK has gotten over 300,000 signatures.
Why the term ‘three-person baby’ makes doctors wince
Parliament's House of Commons just approved further testing on "three-person babies", a technique that would use the genetic material from three people to create a healthy baby. It's a misleading term, scientists say, and it doesn't explain why for some…
Your cheat sheet to the Scotland independence vote
On September 18, Scotland’s citizens will go to the polls to answer a really big question: “Should Scotland be an independent country?” This question, of course, raises lots of other questions about what a yes vote might mean for the…
Protesters have been storming the streets in Kiev since December in response to Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovich declining an economic deal with the European Union.
In our news wrap Wednesday, the Iranian parliament officially endorsed President Hassan Rouhani's effort to open dialogue with the West on that country's nuclear program. Also, new footage from last month's Nairobi mall attack shows only four men carrying automatic…
Kenya's presidential and parliamentary elections are March 4. Leading up to the vote, Kenyans rallied for their candidates and held mock elections to avoid the chaos-driven violence that followed elections in 2007.
More than 200 policemen were deployed outside Egypt's parliament Friday after a court nullified recent elections. Jeffrey Brown and Harvard University professor Tarek Masoud discuss the dashed hopes of the Egyptian people as voters head to the polls this weekend…
Ahead of this weekend's first presidential election in Egypt since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, tensions were high as more than 200 policemen were deployed outside parliament to block lawmakers from entering. Jonathan Rugman of Independent Television News reports from…
