The MV Sun Sea before it was reneamed. marinetraffic.com/ The Globe and Mail About 200 migrants expected to be detained as MV Sun Sea nears B.C. shores Two provincial jails east of Vancouver are preparing for an influx this week of 200 new residents: Tamil migrants aboard a ship that is expected to arrive in British Columbia. That disclosure from a spokesman for the District of Maple Ridge Tuesday... 

German pensioners: The country's population is aging. Germany is already facing a demographic nightmare as birth rates fall despite a slew of family-friendly policies. Now, new statistics show that more people are leaving the country than immigrating — adding to concerns about the country’s shrinking population. Germans fretting about the country’s looming demographic problems... 

Violence broke out in southern Italy yesterday as hundreds of migrant workers, most of them Africans, went on a rampage in retaliation to two of their number being shot and three more beaten with iron bars by white youths. Authorities reporting at least 37 were wounded in the ensuing clashes, including 18 police officers and five migrants, as the violence reached its second day in the coastal town... 

A scheme to relax immigration laws to allow tens of thousands of unskilled workers to enter the country to build Olympic sites is being drawn up for ministers. Migrant workers may be needed to complete the stadiums for the 2012 Games and also to work on separate engineering projects, Government advisers believe. But the prospect of a new wave of immigration for construction schemes – at a time... 

The British government has come up with a new idea on how to tailor citizenship to political loyalty and the country’s economic needs. Under a new points system, an applicant’s skills and respect for British values will count in his/her favour, while those showing an ‘active disregard’ for these values will be penalized by having points taken away. The new points test for... 

Some still try to get through by clinging to the undercarriage of lorries. Others have been found hidden in ‘coffins’ – plastic containers with tiny air vents – close to death. Either way, you can be certain of one thing: that when a truck stops on the now notorious Rue des Garennes on the outskirts of Calais, someone will emerge and attempt to get on board. Day or night. So... 

Illegal immigrants could apply for asylum in Europe from their consulates in North African transit countries or their initial requests could be handled by the captains of patrol vessels that intercept people smuggling boats in the Mediterranean, according to Italy’s foreign minister Franco Frattini. “Turning back a boatload of illegal immigrants in international waters is completely...