Germany’s car industry has confounded analyst predictions, again.

IRELAND’S dream of exporting our floods of rain to parched regions of the world may be pie-in-the-sky. But there are other ways of making money from rain, says Senator Ciaran Cannon of Fine Gael.

The chief executive of DaimlerChrysler, one of the world's biggest carmakers, has no intention of stepping down, despite the failure of an alliance with Mitsubishi Motors.