The 16-year-old choir girl who came close to dying but wouldn’t in the crumbled concrete graveyard of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince astonished her doctors but not her mother with her miraculous survival.

French rescuers pulled a teenage girl from the rubble of a home on the campus of the destroyed College St Gerard, a stunning recovery 15 days after an earthquake devastated Haiti.

THE Department of Justice has stepped up moves to deport immigrants whose marriages to Irish citizens have broken down.