For the first time in more than a century, beer and wine by the glass will go on sale in a small town in Michigan with the granting of a drinks licence to a pizzeria.

Fourteen children kidnapped at gunpoint along with their bus driver on their way to school have been released unharmed, but an American missionary abducted in a separate incident remained in captivity, Haitian police said today.

THE man who shot Dutch anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn started out as a passionate animal rights activist who fought against factory farming.