MI5 and MI6 have identified the British militant suspected of murdering the American journalist James Foley, senior UK government sources confirm.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has offered to restore an EU presence at the Rafah border crossing of the besieged Gaza Strip as the ongoing Israeli onslaught on the Palestinian enclave claims more lives.
The defiant British Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed calls to resign over his defeat in pursuing the UK Parliament to endorse an attack on Syria.