It was an emotional day in the European Parliament on Monday, when a surprise meeting took place between the famous migrant doctor and MP Pietro Bartolo and an Eritrean woman who survived the tragic October 2013 shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa. The woman had been left for dead by first responders but was then miraculously saved by Bartolo.
The charity ship Alan Kurdi reached a rubber boat carrying 32 migrants, ahead of an impending storm on the Mediterranean. According to the Sea-Eye rescue group, they all said they were Libyan citizens.
Four Tunisian mothers have been brought to the city of Agrigento in Sicily to identify the bodies of their children. They died when their boat sank off Lampedusa on October 7. The women were called up as part of a probe into the incident. Only two of the four mothers were able to identify the bodies of their children.
Former Lampedusa doctor and current member of the European Parliament, Pietro Bartolo, says for years he has been seeing women migrants with what he calls the 'dinghy disease' - chemical burns only females tend to sustain while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea towards Italy.
The bodies of five migrants who died when a boat capsized in rough waters off the southern Lampedusa coast a week ago have been found, Italy's coast guard said on Sunday. This brings the overall death toll to 18.
The ship Ocean Viking has docked in the Italian port of Messina, carrying 213 migrants saved at sea. But at least seven other people were killed after a boat capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The mayor of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa says that boats used by migrants can become a danger to the community and the environment, after they have been abandoned on the island.
An Italian parliamentary committee that monitors the Schengen system visited the island of Lampedusa. It found that the migrant hotspot on the island is on the verge of collapse.
Some of the survivors of the shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa told us their stories. One of them tried to save a little girl, but couldn't. He had to watch her drown.
Some of the women who died in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean on Sunday night were pregnant, according to Italian authorities. More than 50 migrants were on board the boat that capsized off the coast of Lampedusa. At least 17 people remain missing.
An art installation titled "Acqua Passata¿" in Palermo, Italy, is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Lampedusa migrant shipwreck on October 3, 2013 - as well as all 18,000 migrants who have died in the Mediterranean since then.
Authorities in Italy are concerned over so-called "phantom" migrant landings, which have become a daily occurrence on the coasts of Sicily, Sardinia, and Calabria.