EU nations have to agree to take in an additional 120,000 asylum seekers by next week, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday.
The woman was fired from her job at a local Hungarian news station, which condemned her actions.
Japan's Nikkei soared 4.7 percent in morning trade, on track for its biggest one-day rise since October 2014.
A train station in Hungary has become a shelter for desperate refugees as well as a sightseeing destination for locals.
Following the pope's call for local parishes to assist refugee families, European communities are planning their responses.
Women’s teams are playable for the first time ahead of the games’ release later this month.
Amid economic uncertainty, new data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts an economic slowdown for the U.S. and U.K.
An online petition that has gathered over a thousand signatures calls for U.S. officials to raise the limit on the number of Syrian refugees coming into the country.
Some 300 of the refugees continued to a highway escorted by police, chanting "Germany, Germany," as they headed to Budapest, more than 100 miles away.
The London-listed mining and commodities giant pledged to slash its debt by one-third.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel described the influx of 20,000 migrants over the weekend as "breathtaking."
Britain has a “moral responsibility” to resettle refugees now living in camps in Syria, Jordan and Turkey, Prime Minister David Cameron says.
The EU executive has drawn up a new set of national quotas under which Germany will take in more than 40,000.
The European country is expecting a record influx of as many as 800,000 refugees this year.
Alexis Tsipras, who led Greece through bitter bailout talks with the country's creditors, stepped down last month.
The blaze broke out at a shelter, housing more than 80 people, in the town of Rottenburg in the western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
ormer Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras played down fears on Sunday that a snap election in two weeks would produce a fractured result, saying there were enough undecided voters to produce a clear winner on the day.
Many opposed to granting the refugees asylum have pointed to what they say are the untenable costs of harboring so many foreign citizens.
"The right to political asylum has no limits on the number of asylum seekers," German Chancellor Angela Merkel says.
Both Austria and Germany opened their borders Saturday to thousands of refugees who had been staying temporarily in Hungary.
As Europe engages in a bout of soul-searching over its treatment of refugees, Gulf Arab states that have taken in no Syrian refugees are coming under increasing scrutiny.
“I don’t rule out any location, any unused building is a possibility.”