British Foreign Secretary William Hague stressed on Wednesday on the need to reinforce Lebanon's stability, revealing that he will visit the Army Command during his stay in Beirut “to stress on the United Kingdom's support for the military institution”.

"We are very keen on Lebanon's stability and the UK will make sure to preserve it,” Hague said after meeting with Prime Minister Najib Miqati at the Grand Serail. “We will support the cabinet in all fields”.

Britain summoned North Korea's ambassador on Wednesday after the pariah state sparked global fury with its third nuclear test, the Foreign Office said.

"I summoned North Korea's ambassador today to stress in the strongest terms the UK's condemnation of yesterday's nuclear test," Hugo Swire, a junior foreign minister, said in a statement.

A British man was remanded in custody on Saturday after being charged with threatening to kill 200 U.S. schoolchildren.

Reece Elliott, 24, appeared at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court, in the Newcastle conurbation in northeast England.

Britain said Tuesday that world powers would make an "updated and credible" offer when talks resume with Iran on its disputed nuclear program this month.

Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed an announcement made earlier Tuesday that a deadlock over the date and venue of the negotiations had been resolved and they had agreed to meet in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on February 26.

A man waving large knives outside Buckingham Palace in the presence of tourists was shocked with a Taser stun gun and arrested on Sunday, police said.

Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip were at one of their weekend retreats, in Sandringham eastern England, at the time of the incident that occurred just before 12:00 pm (1200 GMT).

Claims that British troops committed systematic human rights violations in Iraq were taken Tuesday to London's High Court, where lawyers pushed for a public inquiry into the alleged abuses.

Allegations that British interrogators were guilty of unlawful killings and torture between 2003 and 2009 were put before judges in an 82-page document, with soldiers accused of "terrifying acts of brutality".

Britain is considering sending about 200 non-combat troops to help the military operation against Islamist militants in Mali, with a decision expected within days, media reports said Tuesday.

This would likely include a small number deployed to Mali itself, as part of an EU training mission. A larger number would help train West African forces in the region to join the battle alongside the French and Malian troops.

Britain's Foreign Office on Sunday urged its nationals to leave the self-declared nation of Somaliland, warning of a "specific" threat against Westerners in the northern Somali region.

Britain had similarly warned of a "specific and imminent threat to Westerners" in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday and urged its citizens to leave, swiftly followed by Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and France.

A 31-year-old man appeared in a British court on Friday charged with providing financial support and supplies to his brother and another man who face trial for kidnapping two Western journalists in Syria.

Najul Islam, from east London, has been charged with assisting his brother Shajul Islam, a British trainee doctor, Jubayer Chowdhury and others to engage in acts of terrorism, police said in a statement.

Five people have been arrested in London after videos emerged online of a group of men abusing passers-by for being gay, drinking alcohol or wearing mini-skirts in what they said was a "Muslim area", police said Friday.

The arrests were made over what Scotland Yard described as "filmed harassments" in east London, an area with a high concentration of Muslims, earlier this month.