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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).

President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Saber Chowdhury (right) with women speakers of parliament, who attended the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament at UN Headquarters.

Last weekend a convoy of 13 trucks successfully passed the cross line in Eastern Ukraine and arrived at Gorlovka.

“The destruction of Palmyra constitutes an intolerable crime against civilization but 4,500 years of history will never be erased,” the Director-General declared.