Peter Kenyon

The polls point to a close Brexit vote on Thursday. But the bookmakers, who've done better than the pollsters recently, say it's more likely that British voters will choose to remain in the EU.

David Cameron took a huge political gamble in offering the British people a referendum on European Union membership. With a vote to exit the EU looking more likely, his political life is on the line.

Many Irish citizens living in Britain can vote in Thursday's referendum on European Union membership. Ireland, with billions of trade dollars at risk, wants them to vote to keep the UK in the EU.

Scots are expected to vote to stay in the United Kingdom in next week's referendum, but some nationalists see Brexit as a way to hasten Scottish independence.

British police are investigating the motives of a man who fatally shot Labour Party MP Jo Cox on Thursday. She was an advocate for Syrian refugees and a campaigner against Britain leaving the EU.

A gunman shot and killed British Parliament member Jo Cox Thursday in the town of Birstall in northern England. Both sides suspended campaigning for next week's European Union referendum.

Supporters of the United Kingdom pulling out of the European Union are finding that concerns over immigration are motivating many who plan to vote "Leave" in this month's referendum.

Younger United Kingdom citizens are more likely to favor remaining in the EU - but they're also less likely to vote.

British voters on June 23 will cast what some have called the most important vote of their lives — on whether the U.K. should remain in the European Union. Here's a guide to the main issues at stake.

He's the child of Pakistani immigrants, the son of a bus driver, a human rights lawyer — and London's first Muslim mayor. Sadiq Khan's election flies in the face of rising anti-Muslim and anti-migrant sentiment, and folks in his southeast London neighborhood are thrilled. His next test will be trying to push through his ambitious platform of affordable housing and better public transport in a time of spending cuts.

Mohammed Faris traveled to the Mir Space Station nearly three decades ago, becoming so famous that Syria's president was jealous of him. Now he's one of the many Syrians who has fled to Turkey.

But it's one thing to make a pledge. Will the participants in the first U.N. World Humanitarian Summit deliver?

Holding torturers to account requires evidence, the kind that doctors are learning to compile from countries at war, like Syria. But there are many challenges.

Turkey's prime minister announced that he will step down. It's a shake up in a country that's pivotal in the migrant crisis and the war on ISIS. It also signals more power for President Erdogan.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was seen by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as lukewarm toward his effort to transform the largely ceremonial office of president into Turkey's chief executive.

As Iranian authorities strengthen the so-called morality police, women are bracing themselves for extra scrutiny of their dress and behavior. Will a new, crowdsourced app help them dodge harassment?

In Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, a merchant calls it the worst tourist season in nearly four decades. Terrorism fears and a travel ban by Russia, an important source of tourists, are keeping visitors away.

Lots of Turks tired of waiting in line at foreign consulates hope their country gets the European Union visa status promised in the recent deal on controlling the flow of refugees out of the Middle East.

Tensions along the migrant trail to the European Union are again turning into violence. The unrest comes a week into the implementation of an agreement that was supposed to bring order to the migrant crisis.

The flow of migrants into Europe, more than a million in the past year, is reversing. Under a deal with the Europe Union and Turkey, Greece began mandatory returns of refugees who crossed from Turkey.