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VW employees arriving for work at the company’s huge plant in the northern German town on Friday hoped that a new chief executive could start to stabilize the company.

“Therefore we are putting all planned investments under review”.

Two weeks ago, the German automaker admitted that it cheated on emissions tests in the US.

The company said yesterday it would refit the 11 million cars worldwide affected with new software.

Australian owners of affected cars are still in the dark as Volkswagen, Audi and Skoda are yet to issue a recall locally.

I have also called for a Europe-wide investigation into the use of defeat devices, in parallel to the work we are doing in the United Kingdom’.

VW admitted cheating in diesel emissions tests and the company’s German head office has estimated that 11 million vehicles with type EA 189 engines were affected globally.

The vehicles contain the EA 189 engines which are fitted with software that was used to con emissions testers in the US. Nearly 200,000 Audi brand cars with the same motor will also be recalled with the rest being Seat and Skoda cars and a small number of Volkswagen commercial...

VW said the diesel vehicles include 508,276 Volkswagen cars, 393,450 Audis, 76,773 Seats, 131,569 Škodas and 79,838 Volkswagen commercial vehicles.

Labelling the manipulation of data as “unacceptable” and “illegal”, Alexander Dobrindt said vehicles with 1.2 litre engines may also have been involved in the fraud.

As the scandal unfolded, it was revealed that roughly 11 million vehicles globally were emitting toxic nitrogen oxides at a rate up to 40 times beyond American regulations.

German authorities have given the VW Group just more than a week to prove that all its cars meet emissions regulations, amid reports in the national press that the company was warned as long ago as 2007 that using the software that cheated testing processes on production cars...

Former Olympic 1500m champion Coe was voted in over Ukraine’s ex-Olympic pole vaulter Sergey Bubka by 115 votes to 92 at a meeting of the 214 athletics federations in Beijing.

Andreas Selliaas analyses Coe’s background and comments on his mounting challenges. In his victory speech he valued being elected president of the IAAF as the “second biggest and momentous decision” in his life.

But IAAF’s long-term storage and retesting strategy concerning IAAF Championships, which began in 2005 with anti-doping samples from that year’s IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, has led to disciplinary action being commenced against a further 28 athletes...