British Prime Minister David Cameron called for discussions on how to bring about political transition in Syria on Sunday as he prepares to meet world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Britain has stressed that Syrian President Bashar Assad would not necessarily have to go immediately as part of a peace deal.

Two teenagers were arrested Sunday over a blaze at a London mosque which claims to be the largest in western Europe.

Ten fire trucks were sent to fight the blaze which broke out Saturday at the Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden, southwest London. The smoke could be seen across the city.

Russia and other nations could get sucked into a proxy war in Syria if there was no political solution to the crisis, British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said Sunday.

Speaking on the opening day of the main opposition Labor Party's annual conference in the seaside resort of Brighton, the newly-elected veteran socialist called for urgent action.

Shaker Aamer, the last British resident held at Guantanamo Bay, is to be released by U.S. authorities to Britain after over 13 years at the military prison, officials said Friday.

Saudi-born Aamer is alleged to have been a key British-based recruiter and financier for the al-Qaida militant network and purportedly worked for Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, according to U.S. military documents.

The leader of the UK Independence Party sought to present a united front among anti-EU factions before a referendum on Britain leaving the bloc as he addressed the party conference Friday.

Nigel Farage sought to bring together the different factions campaigning to leave the European Union in a vote to be held by the end of 2017, saying they were "on course to win."

A far-right "ginger extremist" who fantasized about assassinating Britain's Prince Charles so his red-haired son Harry might become king one day was found guilty Tuesday of plotting a terror attack.

Mark Colborne, 37, who felt marginalized due to his ginger hair, compared himself to the Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik and wrote in his notebook of his plans to kill Charles, the heir to the throne.

The Labor Party's new leader Jeremy Corbyn is facing a new dilemma in his rocky first days in the job -- whether or not to kneel before Queen Elizabeth II.

The republican leftwinger has to formally swear allegiance to the 89-year-old monarch at a ceremony in the coming weeks as part of his new posting.

Newly elected British Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn on Wednesday engaged with David Cameron for the first time, bringing a low-key style to the usually raucous weekly showdown of Prime Minister's Questions.

The radical left-winger, whose refusal to sing "God Save the Queen" drew ire from the right-wing press, broke with convention and selected his six questions from the public having "crowd sourced" ideas online.

British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Jordan on Monday for a visit to a Syrian refugee camp and talks with King Abdullah II, the foreign ministry in Amman said.

"Britain is the second largest contributor to the Syrian refugee crisis after the U.S.," Cameron told reporters after meeting the monarch.

Anti-austerity leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn's emphatic win to become leader of Britain's opposition Labor could divide the party's MPs but boost its grassroots power, commentators said Sunday.

The veteran socialist's victory with 59.5 percent of the vote also marks a break with the legacy of controversial former prime minister Tony Blair and his centrist "New Labor" movement of the 1990s.