Weekly news roundup

• In a special feature, the Financial Times offers a close look at two Zimbabweans trying to escape the economic hardship in their country for a better life in South Africa. (This application requires Macromedia Flash Player 7). The accompanying article can be read here.
• In the US, the New York Times features a number of interesting articles. Bill Marsh covers the insecure future of “fugitive aliens” in the country. The paper also has an Associated Press story on the exhaustion of all available H1-B highly-skilled migrant visas for 2008 in one day. These visas are more popular than Justin Timberlake tickets – for very obvious reasons. The Guardian reports that immigrant arrivals are bolstering the demographic situation in major US cities.
• In France, Jean-Marie Le Pen is accusing other presidential hopefuls of stealing his thunder, most notably on immigration. The Financial Times also covers that story.
• More than a thousand migrants from Darfur were allowed to remain in the UK after a judge ruled that conditions in refugee camps in Khartoum were too dangerous for them to return, according to correspondents from The Times.