Fortnight in pictures: (September 17 – October 7)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) addresses the European Parliament as French President Francois Hollande (right) listens during a debate on the way forward on migration and economic policies, in Strasbourg, France on October 7, 2015. Merkel and Hollande addressed the European Parliament hoping to bolster EU cohesion to face interlocking crises in an echo of Franco-German unity in the days after the fall of the Berlin Wall