Police 'stabbed', suspect shot near UK parliament

London

BRITISH police shot a suspected attacker outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Wednesday after an officer was stabbed in what police said was a "terrorist" incident.

The building in the heart of the British capital was immediately sealed off and MPs and staff ordered to remain inside.

David Lidington, the leader of parliament's lower House of Commons who is responsible for arranging government business, told MPs: "What I am able to say to the house is there has been a serious inciden…