22/10/15 CTV reports U.S. border inspector kills knife-wielding Mexican migrant at California crossing. The Customs and Border Protection officer fired his gun four times around midnight, striking the man in his chest and possibly in his neck at the port of entry in downtown Calexico, about 193 kilometres east of San Diego and across the border from Mexicali, Mexico, said Pete Flores, the agency's San Diego field office director.

21/10/15 IRIN reports from Thiaroye, Senegal. When migrants go missing on the long journey from Africa to Europe the lack of information about their fate often adds immense bureaucratic hurdles to the anxious uncertainty suffered by their relatives back home

18/10/15 Reuters reports eight bodies have been recovered from a rubber boat carrying migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean, according to the Italian navy.The naval vessal Bersagliere has rescued 113 migrants from the boat. Natioanlities are belived to be from Sub-Sahara Africa.

16/10/15 TodayOnline reports the bodies of four children, one of them a baby, were among those of seven migrants recovered off the Greek island of Lesvos yesterday (Oct 15) after their wooden boat collided with a Greek coast guard vessel that was on a rescue operation, a Greek Shipping Ministry official said.