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European Parliament President Martin Schulz opens September plenary session in Strasbourg

Ali, 23 and Mohamed*, 23, from Palmira, check their phone; their only connection to their families back home. (Names changed for protection purposes)

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) signed memorandum of understanding with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to support the internally displaced persons in Yemen. The $31-million MoU was signed on Sunday, at the Center's headquarters in Riyadh, between Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah – adviser at the Royal Court and general supervisor of the King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Work, and Dr. Nabil Othman – UNHCR Acting Regional Representative for the GCC.

A child looks out of the window of a train near Gevgelija, in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Families seeking refuge from conflict in their homelands are traveling by train from Gevgelija to the border with Serbia, after crossing the border with Greece.

Syrian children wearing colourful blankets provided by Austrian volunteers and other refugees at dawn wait patiently for permission to take transport onwards into Austria.

An angry confrontation between police and refugees on a blocked train just outside Budapest; a makeshift camp of stranded Syrians, Afghans and others at the capital's main railway station; more than 2,000 refugees crossing into the country from Serbia each day – the contours of Europe's refugee and migration crisis are growing and shifting.

UK has published detailed guidance to support clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to prepare plans – called local digital roadmaps - on how their local health and care areas will achieve the ambition of being paper-free at the point of care by 2020.

Rahma and her eight-year-old sister Kadra before embarking on their return journey in August, 2015.

“Heart-breaking images of children’s bodies washing up on the shores of Europe … lying suffocated in the backs of trucks crossing borders … being passed over barbed wire fences by desperate parents.

Two small children who fled the escalating violence in Iraq (file photo).