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Migrant crisis: Hungary's defence minister Csaba Hende resigns over huge influx of refugees
Migrants fight with police on Serbia-Hungary border as Germany warns EU partners over crisis.
Migrant crisis: Heartwarming video shows how refugees are being welcomed across Germany and Austria
Video compilation of the various ways refugees have been welcomed across Europe.
Migrant crisis: Austria to end emergency measures and re-impose spot checks at border
Special measures to allow refugees to travel freely from Hungary to western Europe to end.
Aylan Kurdi: Memorial service held for tragic toddler and his family in Vancouver
White balloons were released on the city's waterfront in memory of the two boys and their mother.
Migrant crisis: Troops sent to Lesbos as tensions between between migrants and locals turns violent
UNHCR calls for emergency evacuation of refugees stranded in squalid conditions on Lesbos.
Migrant crisis: Pope Francis calls for all European Catholic parishes to take in one refugee family
Pontiff confirms the Vatican will home two refugee families.
Migrant crisis: George Osborne says Britain will home 15,000 refugees using money from foreign aid budget
George Osborne announces government's plans to accept refuges following 'fundamental rethink'.
Sunday Express and Mail on Sunday polls reveal 51% of Britons would vote to leave EU
Surveys insist majority of Britons will shun EU if membership referendum held today.
Migrant Crisis: Australia to take more Syrian refugees, immigration policy attacked as 'inhumane'
Australia's PM Tony Abbott calls for a 'strong security response' to deal with the increase of refugees.
Finland's Prime Minister Juha Sipila offers to share his house with refugees
Sipila said he will open his private residence to asylum seekers.
U2 frontman Bono pays tribute to Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi in concert performance
Bono addressed the migrant issue calling on the public to 'work together to find an answer.'
Migrant crisis: Hungary sends buses to transport migrants to Austrian border
Buses will collect people from Budapest as well as the estimated 1,200 people who are walking to Austria.
Naguib Sawiris: Who is Egyptian billionaire who wants to buy an island for refugees?
Sawiris, the oldest of three brothers, joined the family business in 1979.
Migrant crisis: Hundreds march from Budapest to border as Hungary introduces emergency law
Migrants have begun 106-mile journey to Austria from Budapest.
EU migrant crisis: Train stand-off in Hungary as Britain poised to accept more refugees
David Cameron hints UK may lend a hand to European allies as Hungarian PM Orban courts controversy.
Aylan Kurdi: Photographer who captured harrowing image of Syrian toddler describes 'pain and sorrow'
Photo-journalist Nilüfer Demir, said she was 'petrified' as she took the photo of Aylan Kurdi.
Migrant crisis: Egyptian billionaire offers to buy island for refugees
Naguib Sawiris wants to buy island near Sicily or Greece to aid victims of humanitarian crisis.
Aylan Kurdi: Father of drowned 3-year-old tells of moment his children slipped through his hands
Abdullah Kurdialso lost his five-year-old son Galip and his wife Rehan.
Migrant crisis: Would you welcome a Syrian refugee into your home?
IBTimes UK asked members of the public if they would let a refugee live with them.
Migrant crisis: Is David Cameron poised to U-turn and allow thousands of refugees into the UK?
There is increasing pressure on the UK government to reform its policies as the refugee crisis engulfs Europe.
EU migrant crisis: Greece to ask EU for €700m to tackle refugee influx
Roughly 2,000 migrants from the Middle East and Asia have been arriving in Greece every day.
Germany: Theatre production puts 71 people in truck to highlight plight of refugees
A German theatre staged a controversial protest work, cramming 71 people into the back of a small truck.
What is the difference between a migrant, a refugee and an asylum seeker?
The current migration crisis has sparked debate over terminology of migrants, immigrants and refugees
Aylan Kurdi: Family of drowned refugee boy were refused asylum in Canada
Officials rejected June application for asylum from Kurdish family fleeing Kobane in Syria.
Migrant crisis: Czech police stamp holocaust-style ID numbers on the arms of 200 detainees
The migrants, including women and children, were ordered off trains in Břeclav, near the Austrian border
Migrant crisis: Hundreds protest at Budapest station as Jobbik right-wingers stage rival demonstrations
Around 2,000 migrants camped overnight at east Budapest's Keleti station.
Signs of frustration: Migrants and refugees in Hungary still not allowed on trains to Germany
Matt Cardy photographed some of the signs held by refugees prevented from boarding trains in Budapest.
Migrant crisis: UK taking in more refugees not the answer says David Cameron
Cameron said: 'These are big challenges, but we'll meet them'.
Migrant crisis: 11 dead after two boats sink off coast of Turkey
The migrants, believed to be Syrian, drowned after the boats sunk upon leaving the Turkish coast.
Greece migrant crisis: Photographers document refugees' long and dangerous journey to safety
Thousands of refugees fleeing the war in Syria arrive in Greece every day. This is their story.