Don Thompson, who is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of McDonald`s USA, will in turn take over Ralph Alvarez`s job. Mike Roberts was considered a top candidate to succeed Skinner when he retired sometime in the near future.

While Felipe Calderon continued to claim victory in Mexico?s recent presidential elections, supporters of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador continued their own protests against the election results on Wednesday. European Union election observers have declared the election free and fair and noted no irregularities.

Nepal?s new government headed by Girija Prasad Koirala announced an indefinite ceasefire and removed the terrorist tag on the Maoists on Wednesday, reports a news channel. Washington is not ready to remove the Maoists from its list of terrorist groups.