A McDonald’s worker sacked for giving a colleague extra slice of cheese has won her battle for compensation against the multinational burger chain.

A car bomber struck a police crime lab in central Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens a day after homicide attacks hit several hotels favored by Western journalists, officials said.

Haiti’s prime minister vowed yesterday to rebuild the nation with outside help – but with his countrymen leading the earthquake relief effort.

Two Britons were among 90 people feared dead today after a jet crashed into the Mediterranean shortly after taking off from Beirut.

A notorious cousin of Saddam Hussein has been executed, about a week after receiving his fourth death sentence for crimes against humanity.

A suspected U.S. drone crashed in Pakistan’s lawless tribal area near the Afghan border Sunday, a rare mishap for a program Washington has increasingly relied on to kill Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, said intelligence officials.

Haiti’s government has declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the country’s devastating earthquake over, the United Nations said Saturday.

Pakistani security forces have killed three militants in North Waziristan, their first reported foray for months in a region where America is calling for action against Al Qaeda and the Taliban, intelligence officials said.

The Nigerian cabinet will decide within 14 days on the president’s fitness to govern.

Egypt’s supreme religious law authority has hit out at mobile users who adapt verses from the Koran as ringtones.