World News Update, what you need to know

Gunfire has echoed through the halls of the Canadian parliament as police shot dead a gunman who had killed a soldier guarding a nearby war memorial before storming the building.

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WASHINGTON, Oct 22 AFP - Four former employees of the Blackwater security firm have been found guilty in connection with the 2007 shootings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad that left 14 dead.

JERUSALEM, Oct 22 AFP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered police strength in Jerusalem to be reinforced after a baby was killed and eight other people injured in a hit-and-run "terror attack".

BEIJING - The Ebola epidemic will take at least four months to contain even if all necessary steps are taken, the global head of the Red Cross says, warning of "the price for inaction".

BAGHDAD - Car bombs near a maternity hospital and a service station in Baghdad have killed at least 28 people, the latest in a spate of blasts to hit the city, police and medics say.

LONDON - Allegations of a cover-up of sexual abuse by IRA militants have caused a storm on both sides of the Irish border, drawing comparisons with the scandals that rocked the Catholic Church in Ireland.

NEW YORK - Australian judge Michael Kirby, who led a ground-breaking inquiry of North Korea's dismal rights record, has urged the United Nations to seek war crimes prosecutions of the regime despite Pyongyang's "charm offensive".