As authorities on Spain's Canary Islands keep struggling with the ongoing arrival of a large number of irregular migrants, a local man has turned his garage into a classroom to give Spanish lessons to the new arrivals.

A giant puppet of a young refugee girl is part of "The Walk," an art initiative that will travel 8,000 kilometers in support of refugees. It will also stop in Germany.

A growing number of African and Middle Eastern migrants have been illegally entering Lithuania from Belarus. The country says it is finding it hard to cope. Alexandra von Nahmen reports from the Lithuanian border.

Two weeks after the flood disaster in western Germany, the region is struggling to come to terms with what has happened. Refugees and migrants who once came to the Ahr Valley to build a new life are now facing difficult decisions ag1