Breitbart News, the controversial right-wing site, has apologised after using a picture of former Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski to illustrate a story about migrants travelling from Morocco to Spain.

The article, headlined "Spanish Police Crack Gang Moving Migrants on Jet-Skis", reported how smugglers were making money by bringing in migrants across the Strait of Gibraltar.

The original picture that accompanied the story showed the German footballer, who recently retired from international football, having fun on a jet ski.

Breitbart later changed the picture, but not before it spread on social media.