Traffic was suspended in both directions in the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France on Saturday after a lorry fire, authorities said.

"Due to an incident in the tunnel, all departures are currently suspended in both directions," Eurotunnel said.

Almost half of British Jewish people fear they have no long-term future in Britain or Europe, according to a survey published on Wednesday.

The poll of 2,230 British Jewish people by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA) found that 45 percent feared Jews may have no future in Britain, and 58 percent were concerned they have no long-term future in Europe.

A Fox News commentator's remark about the British city of Birmingham being "totally Muslim" was widely mocked on Twitter on Monday, while Prime Minister David Cameron called the expert a "complete idiot".

Security analyst Steven Emerson said Sunday that "non-Muslims just simply don't go in" to the city, during a discussion of multiculturalism in Britain after last week's Paris attacks.

Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh has said Britain had no involvement with dissidents who tried to topple his government on December 30.

In a speech on state television late Saturday, Jammeh told members of the armed forces that “there is no evidence of British involvement in the attack on State House. There is no single Gambian dissident who came from Britain to support them" (the attackers).

A U.S. judge on Friday sentenced British hate preacher Abu Hamza to life behind bars for the deadly kidnapping of Western tourists in Yemen and terrorism, calling his crimes "evil" and "barbaric."

The hook-handed imam, blind in one eye and a double-hand amputee, was a tabloid bogeyman in Britain after the 9/11 attacks for preaching vitriolic, anti-American sermons at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London.

Britain has stepped up security at ports serving France following the Islamist massacre in Paris, officials said Thursday, as the MI5 intelligence agency offered French counterparts its "full support."

The terror threat level remains at "severe" and officials said the measures were a precautionary measure following the slaying of 12 people at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.

Buckingham Palace issued a new denial Sunday of allegations that a U.S. woman was kept as an underage "sex slave" and forced to have sexual relations with Britain's Prince Andrew.

The woman, identified in legal documents only as "Jane Doe #3," has alleged in a U.S. court filing that she had been kept as a "sex slave" by Wall Street financier Jeffrey Epstein, a friend of the prince.

A huge transport ship that ran aground off the south coast of England was being assessed for its stability Sunday as experts work out how to attempt salvaging the stricken vessel.

The Hoegh Osaka car carrier has beached on the submerged Bramble Bank in the Solent, the straits between the mainland and the Isle of Wight.

Prime Minister David Cameron said Sunday the sooner he can hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership the better, should he remain in office after the May general election.

Cameron has pledged to hold a referendum by the end of 2017 at the latest on whether Britain should remain in the European Union, but said it could be held sooner than that.

Britain's Prince Andrew has been named in a U.S. court filing by a woman who claims she was kept as an underaged "sex slave" by a billionaire Wall Street financier.

In a statement Friday, Buckingham Palace in London denied the allegations, made in a motion filed by her lawyers on Monday in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, Florida.