There was a rally in favour of helping the waves of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe in Brussels on Monday as EU Interior Ministers held an emergency meeting.

The discovery of a lorry containing the corpses of over 70 refugees on an Austrian motorway has given added impetus to a key summit on migration in Vienna.

A prisoner exchange has taken place between government forces and pro-Russia rebel fighters in Ukraine.

Three US citizens and a Briton who on Friday helped disarm a gunman on a train from Amsterdam to Paris, are to be awarded France’s highest honour.

A bomb exploded at a popular shrine in central Bangkok during evening rush hour, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 100, officials said.

As reported by Euronews, eighteen year-old Xiao Xu was one of the first firefighters sent to tackle the blaze that ripped through a chemicals warehouse in the port of Tianjin last week.

Get a taste of some of the interesting and quirky happenings in Europe from our Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill.

The change in how the top jobs in the EU are allocated, coupled with the rise of anti-austerity parties, could produce a very different parliament, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill.

Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of northern Bilbao calling for an amnesty that would allow Eta prisoners to serve out the remainder of their sentences in their native Basque region rather than in jails further afield.

TELEVISION stations give EU news less than a tenth of the airtime they give national news, undermining citizens’ right to information and preventing them having a democratic input, according to the European Commission.

A European television news channel began broadcasting in seven different languages to homes throughout Ireland today.