Here's your weekly digest of the craziest stories from around the world. 1) McDonald's goddess' becomes viral hit You've heard of Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar, but what about the glorious......
'If policy-makers hold the lives of animals to be more significant than the welfare of a human populace, I can't believe that they're likely to do anything progressive for India.' Almost 17 years......
A four-year-old boy, who has not made it to pre-school yet, has been re-elected as the mayor of a town in the United States. Mayor Robert "Bobby" Tufts was re-elected as the mayor of Dorset, a......
Using his fingertip as a canvas, 33-year-old Italian art director has come up with an interesting series of portraits of famous personalities -- The Dalai Lama, Steve Jobs and Hitler, to mention a......
43 McDonald's outlets in New Delhi-National Capital Region were forced to down shutters following lapse of their eating-out or health licences in June. Eighteen outlets of fast-food major......
Retail giant Walmart has the world’s largest number of employees. Take a look at world’s 10 largest employers, according to a ranking by 24/7 Wall St. Image: Wal-Mart Stores, largest......
Image: McDonald's 'Ronald McDonald' character chats with a counter staff in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters American fast-food chain McDonald's has offered Rs 48-50 crore (Rs......
We love them and sometimes we can't get enough of them. They are the characters that personify a brand, lend an image to the brand, and even give the brand a celebrity status. To put......
It's hard to see them with all the gloomy news, but they're out there. Working away in the shadows of the global recession, a slew of future billionaires are quietly tinkering with the ideas that......
The stars behind the biggest films of the year like Prabhas, Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan may have been absent, but IIFA was quite an extravaganza.P Rajendran reports for Rediff.com from New......
Liverpool target Chelsea after midweek tinkering ‘We're Liverpool Football Club, so if we're playing at home we always have to go for the three points’ ‘Normally, against the most......
Manchester United manager Louis Van Gaal with new signing Angel Di Maria at Old Trafford. Photograph: Chris Brunskill/Getty Images For Manchester United, the answer to a slump in form or a crisis......
Arsenal romped to a 4-1 victory at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday to move into second place in the English Premier League while Manchester City's hopes of threatening the top four were hit by......
Champions League debutants Villarreal are hoping to complete a memorable double and dispose of Rangers in the same way as they dealt with the Glasgow club's city rivals Celtic two years......