Residents and police try to rescue refugees from a boat being smashed by violent seas against the jagged coastline of Australia's Christmas Island on Wednesday. Dozens of people are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying suspected asylum seekers crashed into rocks on Australia’s Christmas Island. Pictures from the scene showed the boat, believed to be carrying Iranians and Iraqis, smashed... 

Ireland is offering money to immigrants to leave the recession-crippled Republic. The Irish Department of Justice has confirmed that it is opening an EU-funded project to persuade foreign workers and asylum seekers to return to their country of origin. A spokeswoman told the Observer this weekend that the scheme will only apply to non-EU nationals living in the Republic and would involve the department... 

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has confirmed the existence of race with the news that it is conducting DNA tests on asylum seekers to determine their race and national origin. The UKBA believes this will help limit “bogus” asylum claims made by people who pretend to have fled war zones. This ruse prevents their deportation under the insane Tory/Labour asylum rules. Called the “Human Prevalence... 

Greek police have clashed with hundreds of migrants waiting to submit asylum applications in Athens. A riot broke out after one would be refugee plunged into a canal in exactly the same place where another asylum seeker was killed earlier this year. Community leaders and politicians are warning that Athens inner city is at risk of becoming a racial battleground and are appealing for European assistance...