South African police said they used stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse 3,000 “violent” striking miners in the restive platinum belt near Marikana, where 34 workers were shot dead in 2012.

Dozens of miners are trapped underground at a platinum mine in southern Zimbabwe, a mineworkers union said today.

An EU court in Brussels today overturned the European Commission’s approval of a merger between the music units of media giants Sony and Bertelsmann AG that created the world’s second-largest record label.

LIMERICK City Council yesterday called for an increase in on-the-spot parking fines which are set nationally at €19.