A British aid worker has been killed by Islamic State militants in Iraq.
A video shown of the beheading is said to be consistent with two videos of Americans killed by the same group.
Britain has resisted pressure to join the United States in announcing airstrikes against Islamic State militants after the beheading of David Haines, a British hostage.
Prime Minister David Cameron said his government was battling IS on numerous fronts but was not, for now, launching air strikes.
Britain has in the past often been the first country to join US military action overseas.
It is thought that the British government is conscious of war-weary public opinion and parliament's rejection last year of air strikes on Syria.
The British government is also mindful of sensitivities surrounding Scotland's independence referendum on Thursday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to discuss the aid worker's beheading with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond at a meeting in Paris tomorrow.
Mr Cameron outlined no plans to recall parliament, which is in recess and people familiar with his thinking say he has no immediate plans to do so.
His last attempt to get the British parliament to back such air strikes, against Syria last year, failed to win the support of politicians.
With Scotland his domestic priority, he is aware that many Scots have traditionally been more skeptical of British military action overseas.
He may be concerned that proposing air strikes now could risk alienating them before the independence vote.
Mr Cameron called the murder of Mr Haines, a 44 year-old Scottish aid worker, callous and brutal, hailing the murdered man as a "British hero".
He said: "We will hunt down those responsible and bring them to justice no matter how long it takes," he said, calling IS "the embodiment of evil.
"They are not Muslims, they are monsters," he said.
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