To highlight a year's hard work in training bartenders all over the world, InBev brought together a selection of international finalists for the annual Stella Artois World Draught Master Competition, a contest that rewards the world's best pourer of Belgian beers. The highly-anticipated competition took place on October 28th, 2005 at the Vaudeville Theater in Brussels, Belgium, capital of the beer loving community. The Stella Artois World Draught Master title has this year been awarded to Jessica Waltz, a 27-year-old bartender at Ten Stone in Philadelphia. Michel Denayer - Belgium (1st runner-up) and Irwin Pang from Singapore rounded out the top 3 (2nd runner-up).

Don't mess with the U. S. A. when it comes to bartending. The United States wins the annual Stella Artois World Draught Master Competition, a contest that rewards the world's best pourer of Belgian beers. The competition took place Friday night at the Vaudeville Theatre in Brussels, Belgium, which is capital of the beer loving community.

A survey carried out by the Center for Retail Research reveals Britons are the most prolific shoplifters in Europe. The survey finds they stole 3. 58 billion pounds of goods from their nation's shops last year. An amount equivalent to 1. 59 percent of British retail turnover.

Helios Airways announces a text message reportedly sent by a passenger onboard the Cypriot airliner that went down over Greece was a hoax. The passenger plane was heading to Athens from Larnaca, with a final stop in Prague, when it crashed into a mountain Sunday killing all 121 onboard.

Police in the Rochester suburb of Greece, charge Robert Ross, 38, with unlawful surveillance, after two teenage girls accuse him of using a camera hidden in his shoes to peek into a dressing room where they were trying on clothes. What makes this a special case is the fact that Ross is a drug investigator for a local police narcotics unit.