The American warship where an al-Qaida suspect was interrogated after being snatched from Libya by US special forces has come to the rescue of 120 Somali migrants.

Italy’s coast guard recovered the bodies of three illegal immigrants who drowned this morning after their boat capsized off Malta’s coast, officials said, and the Maltese army called off the search for eight others, who were presumed drowned, raising the death toll to 11.