At least three migrants died in the Channel off northern France on Sunday as a group of around 50 people tried to set off in a small boat heading for Britain, authorities said.

When the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique failed in December,1888, thousands of French investors lost ... side to the level of the lake. The boats would cross the lake, then descend ...

The latest to die was a seven-year-old Iraqi girl, one week ago, when a smuggler's boat capsized on a French canal. But a sharp debate is also emerging over how to explain, and who to blame ...