Developers and investors today vowed to create about 6,000 jobs in a massive regeneration of The Square at Tallaght.

Car giant General Motors is set to retain ownership of its European business, sources said today.

General Motors has received final offers from three companies for its Opel unit - which includes British Vauxhall plants – but a decision is still yet to be taken.

General Motors will sell its Opel unit and other European assets to Canada’s Magna International Inc in a deal German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today would protect the assets from GM’s likely bankruptcy.

A top-level meeting in Germany approved a plan today for Canadian car parts firm Magna to rescue Vauxhall parent General Motors’ European arm.

President Dmitry Medvedev unveiled new measures today to prop up Russia’s shattered banking system, injecting billions of rubles to ease a liquidity shortage one day after the country’s stocks suffered their worst-ever day of trading.

A Russian politician and billionaire industrialist is in hospital with severe burns today after a sports car he was driving slammed into a tree and caught fire in the south of France.

A FIRE broke out in an office building in the Russian Pacific coast city of Vladivostok yesterday, killing nine people and injuring at least 15 others as trapped victims jumped from windows to escape the smoke and flames.

A fire broke out in an office building in the Russian Pacific coast city of Vladivostok today, killing nine people and injuring at least 15 others as trapped victims jumped from windows to escape the smoke and flames.