A Belfast developer won a major battle against Limerick City and County Council yesterday, when he got the go-ahead for a new shopping centre near the University of Limerick, which opens the way for Marks & Spencer to move into the city.

The biggest 10-year real estate project in a city centre, outside of Dublin, was given the go-ahead in Limerick yesterday.

Limerick City and County Council has refused planning for a proposed €100m shopping centre in the Dublin Road suburb.

City centre traders in Limerick yesterday lodged an objection to a planning application for a €100m shopping centre proposed for the Dublin Rd suburbs.

A mothballed retail project on the outskirts of Limerick city, which was abandoned mid-build during the property crash, is set to undergo a €100m redevelopment, with the potential to create 2,000 jobs.

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A father in eastern India is suing his only son for defamation after he married a woman from a lower caste, saying that he has damaged his reputation and social standing.

The four men who raped and killed a young Indian woman on a moving bus will learn if they face execution on Friday.

A Southampton University scientist has helped to develop a new method of understanding the complex world of turbulence which could save billions in global energy costs.

At least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured when a two-storey hotel collapsed in southern India, an official said today.

A second suspect was arrested for the rape of a 5-year-old girl who New Delhi police say was left for dead in a locked room, a case that has brought a new wave of protests against how Indian authorities handle sex crimes.

The Indian bus rape and murder case could be held up by legal delays after a claim that one of the five men charged is a juvenile.

One of five men charged with the gang rape and murder of an Indian student said police tortured him in custody and he and at least three of his co-defendants say they are innocent, lawyers said.

A senior member of security personnel at Shannon airport believed a stolen life jacket contained in luggage was an improvised explosive device (IED).

Police badly beat the five suspects arrested over the brutal gang rape and killing of a young woman on a bus in India, the lawyer for three of the men said today.

A lawyer for three suspects in the brutal rape and killing of a young woman in New Delhi says they will plead not guilty in the case that has transfixed India and raised questions about the treatment of women.

A judge has told a company director who stole a lifejac-ket from an Aer Lingus flight that jailing him was “foremost in my mind”.

Three of the men accused of raping and murdering an Indian student have asked lawyers to defend them and the lawyers have agreed to do so, even though most of the judiciary has refused to represent the suspects because of outrage over the attack.

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Pfizer workers went through a rollercoaster of emotions, with anger, fear, and in some cases relief intermingling as they were finally told of 177 jobs cuts at the company’s two Cork factories.

A plane has crashed into a mountain in the Himalayas while trying to land at an airport in northern Nepal, killing 15 people and critically injuring six.

A MOVE to develop a “ghost” shopping site in a Limerick suburb is causing fears it may further erode city centre retailing.

BELFAST-based Indian property developer Suneil Sharma’s name has been linked with a Limerick city retail site debt acquisition worth over €100 million.

IRELAND captain William Porterfield has targeted a famous victory over New Zealand later today despite watching his side slip to an eight-wicket defeat against reigning World Twenty20 champions India at Trent Bridge.

An airline has been ordered to pay more than £6,000 (€6,800) in compensation to an passenger who lost his job after the firm changed his flight without informing him.

Two police officers were disciplined for failings in handling the case of an Indian man killed in the North, it emerged today.

Spain has rejected a final appeal for asylum by a son of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his British wife and put them on a plane bound for Egypt, the Interior Ministry and a lawyer for the man said today

A lawyer for Osama bin Laden’s son said today Spain has rejected her client’s final appeal for asylum and would deport him.

An official in Nepal says a communist party candidate has been shot and killed days before elections for a special assembly to rewrite Nepal’s constitution.

Nearly 300 communist rebels and their supporters escaped in a daring jailbreak today in eastern India, police said.

India dominated today’s one-day international at Stormont as the tourists warmed up for next month’s Test series with England by skittling Ireland for just 193 from their 50 overs.

Doctors separated 10-month-old conjoined twin boys in a hospital in central India today, a news report said.

The Delhi High Court today sentenced a wealthy Indian politician’s son to life in prison for the 1999 killing of a former model.

A TOP businessman joined Limerick Chamber of Commerce yesterday for a confident declaration that Limerick city centre is poised for a huge shopping take-off.

Taking a break from shooting a film about the life of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, actress Angelina Jolie spent the weekend in the Indian capital playing another role – goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

A top militant commander blamed for 25 attacks and tourist killings has been arrested in India’s portion of Kashmir, in a major setback for the separatist rebels, police said today.

A VAST new shopping complex will draw an additional 100,000 people into Limerick city each week, members of Limerick City Council have been told by the developers.

Police gunfire killed three college students today as they were protesting at the alleged sexual molestation of fellow students by police on a train in eastern India, student groups and officials said.

LIMERICK is set to play host to a €200 million shopping centre that will be one of the biggest city-centre complexes in the country.

THE GAA has been criticised for refusing to allow a soccer club use its all-weather pitches for a tournament to commemorate a young man who died in a holiday accident.

India handed tents for earthquake victims to Pakistan today at a much-heralded opening of their disputed Kashmir border – a mostly symbolic act of cooperation after the region’s huge October 8 quake.

A suicide car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Indian Kashmir’s main city of Srinigar today, killing two policeman and three passers-by and wounding a dozen more people, police and hospital officials said.

AT least 200 bodies have been recovered in western India after the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in the country.