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Migrant Crisis: Asylum seekers in Germany could touch 1.5 million mark
Official estimate based on illegal German border crossings every day.
Migrant crisis: Eurotunnel reopens after 100 people enter the Channel Tunnel
Eurotunnel services have resumed this morning after Calais terminal break-in.
Migrant crisis: Afghan translators in the UK are forgotten refugees from Britain's failed war
IBTimes UK speaks to an army translator who has resettled in the UK after being targeted by the Taliban.
Migrant crisis: Where will the 20,000 Syrian refugees coming to the UK live?
Government departments are in frantic discussions with local authorities to work out details of the plan.
Germany: 110-year-old blind and deaf male refugee arrives from Afghanistan
Elderly man believed to be oldest asylum seeker arrives in Germany after month-long travel from Afghanistan.
Migrant crisis: Syrian Calais stowaway recounts illegal journey in quest for UK asylum [Video]
Ahmed al-Junde's journey from war-torn Syria would claim the lives of his cousin and two friends.
Migrant crisis: Stand-off between Italian police and migrants on French border seawall
Italian authorities clear migrant camp near border town of Ventimiglia, sparking protest.
Migrant crisis: Syrian refugee couple reunited in Plymouth start their new life together in Britain
The family, together after eight months apart, are starting a new life away from the struggles of war.
EU referendum: Voters split over Brexit as renegotiation with Brussels continues
YouGov poll says voters want to break from Brussels but Survation survey tells a different story.
EU refugee crisis: 17 migrants drown as boat sinks between Turkey and Greece
17 drown, 20 rescued as migrant boat sinks in the Aegean Sea near Kos.
Migrant Crisis: Shadow foreign minister warns Cameron to come clean on Syrian refugee resettlement
Catherine West said it would be a month before the details emerged of how many refugees would arrive in the UK.
Migrant crisis: German Chancellor Angela Merkel calls on Russia and US for support
Speaking in German parliament, Merkel told lawmakers a solution to the crisis was far off.
Refugee crisis: Calais migrant killed by freight train in Channel Tunnel
The teenager, believed to be from east Africa, was attended to by paramedics and police.
Migrant crisis: 20,000 Syrian refugees to arrive in UK will be conflict's most vulnerable
Refugees arriving in the UK are part of the UN's Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.
Migrant Crisis: David Cameron says Europe must work to keep Syrian refugees away
The prime minister has said the EU should do more to return migrants who don't have real claims of asylum.
Migrant crisis: Dachau concentration camp being used to house refugees
Buildings that used to host Nazi death machine's herb gardens being used as shelter by migrants.
Migrant crisis: Tim Farron accuses David Cameron of ignoring his humanity over refugees
The Liberal Democrat leader made the emotive attack at his party's annual conference in Bournemouth.
Migrant crisis: EU relocation scheme sets country quotas as Slovakia leads revolt
Slovakia PM Robert Fico vows to refuse the 802 refugees his country is required to take in under EU plan.
Calais migrant crisis: Video shows police use tear gas to clear refugee camp
Footage shows French police in riot gear forcibly evict 350 mostly Syrian refugees.
Migrant crisis will help UK with EU immigration reform says Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Philip Hammond says that thousands of refugees has "focused" the minds of European leaders.
Migrant crisis: Dutch entrepreneurs launch free Airbnb-style site for refugees
Refugee Hero site connects individuals and organisations offering free housing space with refugees.
Home Office: First of 20,000 Syrian refugees arrive in the UK
20,000 refugees will be resettled in the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement scheme.
Refugee crisis: 3,000 migrants to be housed in a Dutch forest
Forest in one of the Netherlands' oldest cities will be used to temporarily shelter 3,000 asylum applicants.
Syrian refugees in Egypt despair at dire conditions and see Europe as their only hope
Syrian refugees say they are charged sky-high rents and discriminated against by Egyptians.
Migrant crisis: Norway steps up border controls as EU ministers meet in Brussels
German train operator Deutsche Bahn suspends Budapest to Munich line over refugee influx.
Crossing No More Edirne: Five foreigners arrested by Turkish police for helping Syrian refugees
French and German activists among those detained during march from Istanbul.
Isis: German police raid Berlin mosque in anti-terror investigation
Police search Tempelhof-Schöneberg mosque offices in investigation into Islamic State recruiting cell.
Migrant crisis: Why Syrian passports are so coveted
Fake passports are being smuggled to non-Syrians who want to gain entry into EU states.
Migrant crisis: EU ministers gather to discuss relocation of 120,000 asylum seekers
Central European states led by Hungary continue to resist accepting migrants.
Crossing No More: Thousands of Greece-bound Syrian refugees blocked in Istanbul and Edirne
March of hundreds of refugees from Istanbul to Edirne prevented by police