The German government wants to temporarily reintroduce border controls in response to the refugee exodus, German newspaper Bild said yesterday as authorities in Berlin warned they were stretched to capacity to welcome refugees. Meanwhile, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said refugees streaming into Europe should not be able to choose where to settle, as authorities said thousands more were on the move across the continent.

Turkey yesterday lifted a week-long curfew imposed on the predominantly Kurdish south-eastern city of Cizre, media reports said. Cizre was sealed off since

US President Barack Obama said Friday that Russia's decision to send military advisors and equipment to Syria extended a strategy "doomed to failure," and could kill off already stagnant peace efforts.

Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka returned safely to Earth with two other astronauts from the International Space Station yesterday

A British-funded memorial to the thousands killed, tortured and jailed in the Mau Mau rebellion was unveiled in Kenya yesterday, in a rare example of former rulers commemorating a colonial uprising.

Austria's chancellor criticised Hungary for its handling of the refugee crisis on Saturday, likening the country's policies to Nazi deportations during the Holocaust as refugees complained of their treatment in the eastern European country.

Anti-austerity leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party yesterday in a landslide victory that

More than 430,000 migrants and refugees have reached Europe via the Mediterranean since the start of the year, the International Organization for Migration

A Hungarian camerawoman who caused global outrage after being caught on film tripping and kicking refugees as they fled police apologised yesterday and

Saudi Arabia has reportedly responded to the growing number of people fleeing the Middle East for western Europe – by offering to build 200 mosques in

Disturbing footage yesterday emerged of the way migrants are being treated inside Hungary's main refugee camp on the border with

Greece's radical-left Syriza party has established a narrow lead over conservative rivals New Democracy nine days from a snap election, according to a poll

Activists planned new protests in Venezuela yesterday after jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison for inciting

Turkish warplanes struck 64 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in overnight raids on northern Iraq, dropping 80 bombs, the Turkish media reported

Hundreds of thousands of Catalans poured into the streets yesterday demanding independence, ahead of a regional election billed as an indirect vote on

Russia plans to finally bury the remains of Tsar Nicholas II's son and heir Alexei and daughter Maria alongside their family in Saint Petersburg.

There is something almost Biblical about the mass exodus of desperate people fleeing Syria and other war-torn and impoverished countries. For European governments, struggling to manage the crisis engulfing their borders, the Bible has a succinct lesson they might do well to ponder: "For whatever one sows, that will he also reap."

Dhirendranath Samanto, 64, of Purbo Basudebhpur village in Dinajpur's Phulbari, is proud of his business success. In 1977 after

Europe was increasingly divided over its refugee crisis yesterday as record numbers of migrants streamed through the Balkans into Hungary, forcing Austria to suspend cross-border train services.

A Supreme Court chamber judge imposes a status quo till September 14 on release and screening of the Rana Plaza movie.