Slain MP Jo Cox laid to rest in private ceremony

The funeral of MP Jo Cox, whose murder shocked Britain in the run-up to last month's EU referendum, was being held on Friday in the northern English constituency she represented. Cox, a 41-year-old mother of two young children, was shot and stabbed in the street in the village of Birstall, West Yorkshire, on June 16 as she made her way to an advice session for the people she represented in parliament. The slaying of the opposition Labour Party lawmaker a little over a year after she was elected,