Many people are feared drowned after a boat carrying up to 400 mainly Somali migrants capsized in the Mediterranean off the coast of Egypt.
Hollywood star and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie visits a makeshift camp in Greece and says the refugees were stuck in a "deteriorating humanitarian situation" and needed help.
Macedonia has said it will no longer let any migrants through its border with Greece, effectively blocking the Balkan route north.
More than 131,000 migrants and refugees reach Europe via the Mediterranean this year, more than the total number in the first half of 2015, the United Nations says.
More than 7,000 migrants have been stuck in worsening conditions on the Greece-Macedonia border at a camp designed to support just 1,500 people.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says the social network needs to get better at cracking down on hate speech against migrants.
Police in Hungary say increasing numbers of migrants are breaching a razor wire fence built to stop them crossing the border from Serbia.
More than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving in Europe over the past two years, the EU's police intelligence unit says.
Five times more attacks were carried out on migrant hostels in Germany last year than in 2014, German police say.
Persecuted Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar and thousands of Bangladeshi nationals have undertaken perilous journeys across the Andaman Sea to reach countries in Southeast Asia.
Croatia closes seven of its eight road border crossings with Serbia following a huge influx of migrants.
Hungarian riot police fire tear gas and water cannon to force back migrants who broke through gates at the now closed Serbia-Hungary border.
Hundreds of migrants are stranded at the Serbia-Hungary border after the Hungarian government closed the frontier with a new razor-wire fence.
Austria says it is deploying troops to help deal with a migrant influx, and will tighten controls on its border with Hungary.
Ending the conflict in Syria and Iraq is key to solving the migrant crisis facing Europe, a senior US official tells the BBC.
A Hungarian camerawoman is fired after shocking footage emerged of her intentionally tripping refugees fleeing police near the country's border as she covered the crisis for a local news outlet.
The Greek government and the UN refugee agency have brought in extra staff and ships to deal with some 25,000 stranded migrants on the island of Lesbos.
