A cutting-edge US hi-tech company has chosen an industrial innovation park in Limerick as a launch pad into the EU market.

Full services have resumed on the Northern Commuter and Belfast Enterprise line following the collapse of the Malahide Viaduct in Dublin almost three months ago.

US President George Bush will tomorrow visit areas hit by a tornadoes that have killed at least 20 people in several American states, including eight students at an Alabama high school.