Ireland
MADRID - The wreckage of Spain's economic growth model stands neatly aligned on the roads leading out of Madrid - row after row of unsold houses, windows dark, for-sale signs out front.
Stephen Gately
PORT D'ANDRATX, Mallorca (AP) - Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, died Saturday.
BRUSSELS - Dell Inc. won EU approval Wednesday to receive a euro54.4 million ($80.4 million) subsidy from the Polish government to build a new plant there, replacing Ireland as the computer maker's new European manufacturing hub.
BRUSSELS - Dell Inc. won EU approval Wednesday to receive a 54.4 million ($80.4 million) subsidy from the Polish government to build a new plant there, replacing Ireland as the computer maker's new European manufacturing hub.
DUBLIN - One of Ireland's largest employers, computer chip maker Intel Corp., announced Tuesday it plans to lay off 294 people - or 6 percent of its Irish work force - in the latest blow to Ireland's unraveling economy.
