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Calais migrant crisis: Video shows migrants storming Channel Tunnel entrance
Amateur video shows large group of migrants rushing towards the Calais tunnel entrance unchallenged.
Libya: Inside Sabha the heart of Libya's smuggling and human trafficking network
The capital of Libya's deep south is the crossroads for illegal trade from sub Saharan Africa.
Mediterranean migrant crisis: 40 Africans feared dead as boat sinks off Libyan coast
Most victims from sub-Saharan African countries like Senegal, Mali and Benin.
New visa application system requires police checks to crack down on foreign offenders
Visa applicants will have to undergo background checks to prevent foreign criminals from working in the UK.
Calais migrant crisis: Britain announces plans for lorry 'secure zone'
Theresa May delivered the plans in parliament to deal with worries about illegal immigrants.
UK and France to increase efforts to return illegal migrants to Africa
France and Britain agreed to discourage migrants from Africa and the Middle East from coming to Europe.
Calais chaos: Britain sends 2 miles of fence to France to keep out migrants
Home Secretary Theresa May says Britain must send a 'very clear message' message that entry is forbidden.
Calais: Migrants continue to try and board lorries bound for UK [Video]
Video footage shows migrants trying to break into lorries bound for Britain, one day after strike at the port.
Italy: Over 2,500 migrants rescued from Mediterranean in a day
Over 2,500 migrants have been rescued in 24 hours, with ships returning to a number of ports over Italy.
Foreign Office warns Calais tourists to lock doors amid fears migrants will attempt to get in cars
Strikes by French ferry workers have caused havoc as Eurotunnel suspends its service.
EU to tackle migrant trafficking - Libya warns of air strikes against unauthorised vessels
The EU has announced a naval mission to break up people-trafficking rings in North Africa.
Migrants at Franco-Italian frontier start Ramadan
Migrants in makeshift camps on the Italian border with France started Ramadan.
Milan: Hundreds of migrants blocked at train station as they try to move north
Hundreds of mainly Syrian and Eritrean migrants remained blocked at Milan's central train station.
Migrant crisis: Anti-immigration leader Salvini tells Pope Francis 'we don't need your forgiveness'
Italy's anti-immigration Northern League leader Matteo Salvini attacks pontiff over refugees appeal.
Italian police clear migrants from France border crossing amid EU refugee redistribution talks
Asylum seekers camped on sea rocks of Ventimiglia forcibly removed by security forces.
Mediterranean crisis: Renzi attacks 'selfish' France, threatens to grant migrants safe passage to Europe
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi lashes out at Paris as hundreds of would-be-refugees are stranded in Ventimiglia.
Eritrea: Prisons like 'Nazi concentration camps' in the North Korea of Africa says activist lawyer
Daniel Mekonnen says that he has received death threats for his work in Eritrean diaspora
Mediterranean migrant crisis: European ships race towards Libya
HMS Bulwark among ships sailing towards Libya in urgent mission to rescue thousands of migrants stranded at sea
Record numbers of migrants rescued in Mediterranean: 4,200 in 24 hours
More than 4,200 people attempting the perilous journey were rescued over a 24-hour period.
David Cameron's immigrant crackdown will drive thousands into modern slavery
The government has no idea of how to control legal migration - and today's ONS figures prove it.
Australia: PM Tony Abbott says 'nope, nope, nope' to Rohingya refugees
Malaysia and Indonesia agreed to take in thousands of migrants stranded at sea on stricken vessels.
EU agrees Mediterranean naval mission to tackle people smugglers
EU ministers agree to set up naval mission in Mediterranean to target gangs smuggling people from Libya to Europe
Southeast Asia migrant crisis: Malaysia and Bangladesh to hold key talks
Foreign ministers of Malaysia and Bangladesh will discuss worsening migrant crisis as Myanmar bristles.
HMS Bulwark brings more than 600 rescued migrants to Sicily
More than 600 migrants rescued by the British navy as part of the enlarged European Union search and rescue operation.
Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urges Europe to take in more migrants
Says European countries 'also have their obligations' towards helping migrants.
French police use violence against migrants in Calais [Video]
Amateur videos show migrants being brutalised by police in Calais.
David Cameron should stop shaming Britain and let Mediterranean refugees in now
The narrative on migrants in Britain is deplorable and unbeffiting a proud history of taking refugees in
UNHCR demands legal protection for migrants
The UNHCR demanded clarification of the legal status for migrants in the EU in order to control the massive influx of people smuggled in by boats.
Vietnamese refugee 40 years after fall of Saigon: 'I'll never forget'
Anh Tu Nguyen said Vietnam's government in 2015 is no less repressive than when it defeated the US in 1975.
Election 2015: Migrant voters could 'swing a number of marginal seats'
A report from the Migrants' Rights Network claims certain minorities could make a big impact in the election.