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Palestinian-Syrian hairdresser Momena attends to a client at her small salon in Damascus.

Yemeni refugee Abdillahi Bashraheel stands at the entrance to his "museum of curiosities" at Markazi Camp in Djibouti.

A young child inside her house in the Muhamasheen area of Mathbah, in Sana'a, Yemen. 2 November 2015.

Girls fetching water in Mawyah district, Taiz. This role often falls on the shoulders of girls and young women, often at the expense of their education.

The European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) which centralises and coordinates EU member states’ fisheries inspections, will be empowered to use the data provided by its ship reporting systems to detect vessels carrying migrants under updated rules approved by Parliament's Fisheries Committee on Tuesday. It will also be able to and conduct new types of operations to disrupt people smuggling routes.

A new diagnostic approach, the Rapid Assessment and Action Plan to Improve Service Delivery in Indonesia (RAAP-Id), supported by the World Bank, the European Union, and the governments of Canada and Switzerland, is being piloted in Indonesia to help deliver better public services and improve outcomes, including in health and education.

A father with his children in front of their home in Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

It’s in the DNA of our country to explore, and we must never stop doing this; we must lead, we must learn, and we must discover.

—Astronaut Scott Kelly

Scott Kelly is absolutely right! It is in our cultural DNA to explore! It is in the DNA of every human being to explore. This is the creative nature that is unique only to the human species, the only species that can create new scientific breakthroughs, the only species that can conquer space.