Man 'bites off part of waiter's finger'

An Australian national has been arrested in Serbia for biting off part of a waiter's finger in an argument, police said on Saturday.

The incident occurred in the northern town of Novi Sad on Friday when the 26-year-old Australian, identified only by his initials SM, entered a cafe with his own bottle of alcohol and wanted to drink it, a police statement said.

The young man attacked the waiter after he asked him to put the bottle away, it added.