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UK's new legislation requiring every public sector worker employed in a public-facing role to speak fluent English will be introduced in September, Cabinet Office Minister Matt Hancock confirmed on August 2.

More Europeans say they have a positive image of the European Union and trust in the EU has gone up since last November. In addition, citizens see immigration as the major challenge facing the EU currently. These are some of the results of the latest Standard Eurobarometer survey published on 31 July. The survey was carried out between 16 and 27 May 2015 in 34 countries or territories.

Helping is never complete without a smile. Lenche Zdravkin with refugees at Gevgelija railway station.

Meeting in the courtyard of a reconstructed townhouse in Kilis which serves as a women's community centre.

Three month old Success Sumois, strapped to her mother’s back, waits to be registered through the mobile birth registration team at the Totota Clinic in Liberia.

Some 456 people, including several dozen children, were rescued by an Irish naval patrol responding to a distress call on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 28 but 14 others died.

The world’s population grew to seven billion in 2011.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria.

Boys hold shrapnel from exploded artillery shells while standing on a street damaged by blasts in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen.

Children in the Khanke Camp near Dohuk city, Iraq, which mainly houses Yazidis fleeing from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).