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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the Global Civil Society Forum held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the eve of the opening of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development.

The New Silk Road is not only an extremely important economic initiative. Because it is a win-win perspective, it also addresses the two biggest dangers in the world today: the danger of a financial blowout of the trans-Atlantic sector and the danger of global war. I have to address the fact that if the hardline of the Troika insists that Greece should pay the debt, a debt of 360 billion euros which is completely unpayable, this will blow out the derivatives of the European and American banking system.

On the eve of the United Nations Summit in New York in September, the stakes of this Conference are high. “We have been very clear from the outset that the new global and transformative post-2015 agenda must go along with equally ambitious and credible means of implementation,” says the Director-General. “We are coming together here in Addis Ababa to agree on how to deliver on this commitment.”

The Greece debt crisis took centre stage during July's plenary session, as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras came to Strasbourg to discuss the search for solutions. MEPs also adopted their recommendations for Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and approved a reform of the EU's emissions trading scheme that should boost incentives for green investments. Read on for our summary of what happened in Strasbourg in a busy summer week.

Just over 300 Syrian refugees with passports lining up to board the night ferry from the Greek island of Kos to Athens where they can be registered.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, briefs the Security Council.

More than four million Syrians have now fled war and persecution and become refugees in neighbouring countries, making the Syrian conflict the UN refugee agency's worst crisis for almost a quarter of a century.

Refugees in Minawao camp , Cameroon, after fleeing violence by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria.

A child gets vaccinated for polio at Al-Olufi Health Center in downtown Sanaa.

Newly arrived refugees from South Sudan at Ethiopia's Pagak entry point in Gambella in April 2015.