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.

An Indonesian maid has been charged with the murder of 75-year-old Wee Keng Wah. The 26-year-old maid, Barokah, was detained early Thursday morning.

On Friday, Singapore puts two men behind bars for making racist remarks over the Internet against minority Malays. The city-state's administration has invoked sedition laws inherited from British colonial rule. Twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Koh has been sentenced to a month in prison, while 25-year-old Nicholas Lim was fined, and jailed for one day.

Delegates to the annual World Toilet Summit in Northern Ireland's capital deliberate on crucial issues like anti-social activities in rest rooms, portable toilets, and amenities for the blind. Raymond Martin, director of the Irish Toilet Association, says delegates have launched a "Bog Standard Campaign" to advocate better toilets in UK schools. They have also inaugurated Belfast's first public UriLift toilet, a stainless steel urinal that rises hydraulically out of the ground to facilitate male users.

In a bid to refurbish religious education for youths, Singapore mosques will teach sexuality to Muslim teenagers starting in December. The program will use a book titled "X-rated", written and published by the council. It will be part of a string of workshops about Islam that will be held in 13 mosques, reports Reuters