Britain intends to resume the delivery of non-lethal aid to rebels in Syria after it was suspended in December following advances by Islamist groups, Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced.

The £1 million ($1.7 million, 1.2 million euros) worth of communications equipment, vehicles, generators and medical kits will be delivered to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) "as soon as is practical", he said.

A Spanish judge on Wednesday ordered an 85-year old suspected pedophile to be extradited to Britain to face charges of abusing choirboys decades ago, a judicial source said.

Spain's National Court upheld a European extradition warrant for John Brown, wanted by authorities in London for his alleged role in a pedophile ring that targeted a church choir.

The United States and Britain said Tuesday they were determined to track down billions of dollars of Ukrainian assets allegedly looted under the regime of deposed president Viktor Yanukovych.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and British Home Secretary Theresa May told an international conference on asset recovery that those responsible would be held accountable.

British authorities on Monday launched a money- laundering investigation linked to possible corruption in Ukraine and froze $23 million (17 million euros) in assets.

The announcement came a day before international talks in London aimed at recovering assets which may have been looted under the regime of deposed pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych.

Police arrested a 15-year-old male pupil after a female teacher was stabbed to death at a Catholic school in Britain on Monday.

The woman, who has not been named, was fatally wounded at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds, northern England.

Britain and France deployed eight fighter jets on Monday to reinforce NATO air patrols over the Baltics as tensions rise with Russia over Ukraine, officials said.

Four British Typhoon jets arrived in Lithuania to start their mission while four French Rafale jets touched down in Malbork, northeast Poland, their defense ministries said.

A British teenager was killed in a battle in Syria, his father said on Friday, as he revealed that two of his other sons have also gone to fight in the conflict.

Abdullah Deghayes, 18, whose uncle is a former detainee of the Guantanamo Bay camp, died earlier this month after leaving Britain in January.

Morocco Tuesday jailed a British man, previously convicted of child sex offenses, for 20 years for kidnapping and attempting to rape three young girls, a rights activist at the trial said.

Robert Bill, 59, a former teacher from North Wales, was found guilty by the court in Tetouan at a hearing attended by his victims, Mohammed Benaissa, who heads the Northern Observatory for Human Rights, told Agence France Presse.

The government has ordered inspections of 15 schools in Britain's second biggest city after allegations that they are being taken over by Islamic hardliners, officials said on Sunday.

A row has been brewing in Birmingham for weeks since the local council received an anonymous letter alleging a plot to force a change of leadership at four state-run schools.

Irish President Michael D. Higgins on Tuesday hailed the warm ties with Britain which he said once seemed "unachievable," during an historic state visit.

Addressing both houses of parliament, Higgins said Ireland's bloody fight for independence from the United Kingdom, which it gained in 1922, "inevitably casts its long shadow across our relations."