Milan city officials have appealed for help in managing the huge number of migrants arriving from southern Italy after rescue at sea, as rising numbers are unable to find beds and are sleeping in the train station.

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THEY call it the green hunger, the deceiving sight of crops in the ground but no food to eat.

An Ethiopian immigrant has been convicted of the genital mutilation of his two-year-old daughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in what was believed to be the first such criminal case in the US.

GARDAÍ are due to travel to Belgium for the case of five men accused of trafficking 13 asylum seekers, eight of whom died en route, to Ireland over a year ago.