1/12Migrants run away from a temporary holding center for asylum seekers in Roszke, southern Hungary, Sept. 8, 2015. Hungarian police struggled to control thousands of migrants hopping cross-border trains into Austria, taking advantage of country's surprise decision to stop screening international train travelers for travel visas, a get-tough measure that the country had launched only days before to block their path to asylum in Western Europe.
2/12A migrant carrying a baby is stopped by Hungarian police officers as he tries to escape on a field nearby a collection point in the village of Roszke.
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A relative weeps on the ground in an alleyway near the body of a man who had been shot in the head as the angry crowd shouts at the police, in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya's election took an ominous turn as violent protests erupted in the capital.
9/12Meanwhile, more refugees arrive aboard a dinghy after crossing from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece. The island of some 100,000 residents has been transformed by the sudden new population of some 20,000 refugees and migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
10/12Refugees and migrants register at a registration center at the city of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos. Greece asked the European Union for aid to prevent it being overwhelmed by refugees, as a minister said arrivals on Lesbos had swollen to three times as many as the island could handle.
12/12Refugees transported by busses from Munich wait after their arrival in one of the exhibition halls of the Trade Fair Messe Erfurt, in Erfurt, central Germany. Germany said it was willing to accept 800,000 migrants.
