International fast food giant McDonald’s has posted its biggest jump in global sales at established restaurants in five years, helped by stronger traffic worldwide and US initiatives including drink specials and custom sandwiches.

Pizza Hut is set to open three outlets in Ethiopia this year, becoming one of the first international restaurant chains to enter Africa’s second-most populous country.

A worker in Pizza Hut used his own gun to kill one of three armed robbers holding up his shop in the US.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Pizza Hut decided that pizza boxes were getting a little dull and predictable, so they rigged one up to control music like a DJ.

A teenage girl was stabbed and raped after a man dragged her from a Pizza Hut restaurant in front of terrified staff in a busy town centre in England.

Irish Euromillions winner Dolores McNamara is in the running to buy a massive retail park in her native Limerick.

Official economic numbers are famously rubbery. China’s exports to Hong Kong in December rose 30% from the previous month and overtook shipments to the US and the European Union, according to customs data released earlier this week which economists put down to fake invoicing by mainland businesses trying to evade currency restrictions.

She's a badass.

Willie Murphy from New York weighs 105 pounds and deadlifts 215 pounds, She’s also a 77-year-old grandmother. And a badass but that goes without saying.

NUTS to The Worst Winter In 100 Years!! Just dance.

NUTS to The Worst Winter In 100 Years!! Just dance.

Connecticut man arrested after driving stolen car to meeting with cops

Pizza for all!

Why are our waistlines expanding by the year? Clodagh Finn turns to health author Sarah Boseley to find out what’s wrong with the way we eat today.

UK: A couple have held their wedding reception at the pizza restaurant where they had their first date 14 years ago.

A district manager for Pizza Hut in the US has been caught on CCTV emptying his bladder into a sink in the restaurant's kitchen.

US health officials have temporarily shut down a West Virginia pizza restaurant after a district manager was caught on surveillance video urinating into a sink.

A mother accused of killing her under-nourished four-year-old son told detectives it was not her who starved him because "he would starve himself", a British court has heard.

So wrong. So very, very wrong. But so right. So very, very right.

Fried chicken restaurant chain KFC will create 1,600 jobs this year by opening more than 40 restaurants across Ireland and Britain.

Fried-chicken restaurant chain KFC will create 1,600 jobs this year by opening more than 40 restaurants across the UK and Ireland.

There’s no mystery to how to make the socialnetworking site work for you. You don’t need a lot of friends. You just need a lot of cash, says Megan McArdle

The Dow Jones industrial average logged its longest winning streak in two years - barely.

Tyree Johnson scrubs himself with a bar of soap in a McDonald’s bathroom and puts on fresh deodorant.

More than 100 Canadians will open their post to find a bottle of pizza-scented perfume before Christmas.

Corkman Darragh O’Leary tells Irene Feighan how his love of dance led to a life-changing experience at the London Olympics

A death row inmate has requested a final 29,000 calorie feast.

Thirteen children were among 19 people killed in a fire in one of Qatar’s most upmarket shopping malls, the interior ministry said.

THE holders of the master franchise for Pizza Hut’s delivery services through Ireland have secured a High Court injunction preventing Pizza Hut’s US-based parent terminating that agreement.

The holders of the master franchise for Pizza Hut's delivery services through Ireland have secured a High Court injunction at preventing Pizza Hut's US-based parent terminating that agreement.

A man has been sentenced to 10 days in jail after failing to return his library books.

A satellite dish store in the US is offering customers a free gun when they sign up for a package.

A US store is offering would-be satellite television customers a free gun.

A CONSUMER watchdog has called for clearer front-of-pack labelling on takeaway pizzas after a study revealed that frozen supermarket varieties were among the healthiest.

Yum Brands, the owner of the Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC fast-food brands, said its third-quarter profit grew 7% on the strength of surging overseas sales, mainly in China.

Environmentalists praised Burger King’s decision today to stop buying palm oil from an Indonesian company accused of destroying rainforests.

Booming business in China has helped push up first quarter profits at fast food operator Yum Brands by 11%.

UP to 300 jobs are to be created in the healthcare and catering sectors, it was confirmed yesterday.