Category: World

McDonald’s Corp plans to add more than 1,500 restaurants in China, Hong Kong and South Korea over the next five years as it focuses on high-growth markets to boost sales. The company, known for its Big Mac burgers, said it was seeking franchise partners in those three markets, where it already has more than 2,800 restaurants, most of them company-owned. […]

All 55 passengers and seven crew of a passenger jet were killed on Saturday when the plane crashed in southern Russia, officials said. The Dubai Media Office says those killed in the crash include 44 Russians, eight Ukrainians, two Indians and one from Uzbekistan. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said the aircraft, a Boeing 737-800, crashed at 03:50 (0030 GMT) at the […]

Two Indians were among the 55 passengers who perished when FZ981, a Flydubai aircraft, crashed in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia earlier today, officials have confirmed. Seven crew members also died in the crash. “The two Indian names in the list put out by the Russian authorities are of Anju Kathirvel Aiyappan and Mohan Shyam,” an official source told The Hindu […]

British Prime Minister David Cameron’s 81-year-old mother Mary Cameron has lost her job after a children’s centre closed as a result of massive government cuts. Mary Cameron and her sister Clare Currie had last month signed a petition protesting against the Cameron-led government’s plans to close 44 children’s centres in Oxfordshire, including some in the Prime Minister’s own constituency of […]