A would-be immigrant died Wednesday after reaching Spain`s Canary Islands in a wooden fishing boat from Africa with 135 others, hospital sources said.

The man had been taken to hospital after suffering a heart attack after arriving on the island of Tenerife late on Tuesday.

Mauritanian authorities picked up 66 illegal immigrants trying to reach the Spanish Canary Islands by sea after their boat broke down, a source in the security services said Sunday.

MADRID, Oct 21, 2007 (AFP) - Abdul, a 30-year-old Moroccan immigrant, sat amid the ruins of his house in a Madrid shantytown, bulldozed on the orders of city hall.

Thousands of other families like his in Canada Real Galiana, home to around 30,000 people, live in fear of receiving the order that their homes have been deemed illegal and will be destroyed.

But with the demolition of Adbul's home on Thursday, the residents decided they had had enough.

PARIS, Oct 20, 2007 (AFP) - Thousands of people took to the streets across France Saturday to protest against a bill going through parliament that would bring in DNA testing for foreigners wishing to join their families here.

Organisers said some 3,000 people attended a march through Paris as part of a 'national day of solidarity with foreigners'. Police put the figure at 1,500.

MADRID, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - Madrid authorities moved Friday to ease tensions in a shantytown where clashes erupted between immigrants and police, granting a reprieve to Romanian families whose homes were to be demolished, a local charity said.

A Madrid court ordered an 'indefinite delay' on the bulldozing of the seven homes in the shantytown of Canada Real Galiana, said Caritas, which advises residents on their legal rights.

MADRID, Oct 18, 2007 (AFP) - Police trying to evict a Moroccan family from a shantytown near Madrid clashed with residents early Thursday, leaving 23 people slightly injured, media reported.

Police also arrested three Moroccans following the confrontation with immigrants in the Canada Real Galiana shantytown.

The clashes began when police arrived to evict a Moroccan family on the orders of municipal authorities in the capital, who said they were 'residing illegally in a public place.'

SAINT LOUIS, Senegal, Oct 17, 2007 (AFP) - Senegalese police on Wednesday arrested 15 clandestine immigrants headed for Europe and two people traffickers after the canoe they were aboard ran aground.

A police officer in the town of Saint Louis told AFP: 'We arrested 17 people and an inquiry is now underway.'

He said the police had been alerted by locals who saw a group of wet and tired people on a beach near the town.

Unconfirmed reports from witnesses said two more illegal immigrants died during the journey and were buried on the beach.

SOPOT, Oct 17, 2007 (AFP) - The interior ministers of the EU's six largest nations met in Poland Wednesday for talks focused on terrorism and illegal immigration.

'We will be discussing first and foremost terrorism, and the battle against this scourge, as well as the problem of illegal immigration,' said Wladyslaw Stasiak, the Polish interior minister presiding over the meeting.

The G6, an informal grouping created in 2003, comprises Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Poland and Britain. It met in the town of Sopot on the Polish Baltic coast.

BLANTYRE, Oct 17, 2007 (AFP) - Malawi has launched a campaign to crack down on Chinese and Nigerian traders accused of operating illegally in the country, Trade and Commerce Minister Ken Lipenga said Wednesday.

'We have launched a campaign to flush out illegal foreign investors...the influx of Chinese and Nigerian traders is causing a big problem, ' Lipenga said.

He said several shops owned by Chinese nationals were shut down in the administrative capital Lilongwe, where they were found to have flouted business licencing procedures.

LONDON, Oct 17, 2007 (AFP) - Britain's immigration surge has boosted the economy but left services feeling the strain, separate government reports said Wednesday.

Foreign-born workers now make up an eighth of the workforce and were believed to be more productive than British workers, said The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Immigration report.