Investors in the UK endured further stock market misery today as fears over the US economy sparked another sell-off.

The search for six miners missing deep underground in the US was abruptly halted after a second cave-in killed three rescue workers and injured at least six others trying to tunnel through rubble to reach them.

A disastrous cave-in killed three US rescue workers and injured at least six others who were trying to tunnel through rubble to reach six trapped miners in Utah, authorities said.

Robert De Niro has come under fire from the US Department Of Labour for having allegedly cheated his restaurant workers out of $328,000 (€253,200) in pay.

COMMENTARY by employers’ groups and conservative pundits on wage levels in the Irish economy usually boils down to allegations that wages are ‘too high’, ‘growing too fast’, ‘undermining our competitiveness’, etc.