Bingo! In quieter Baghdad, beloved game is back

It's Saturday night at the Alwiyah Club, and 21-year-old Sarah al-Kimackchy is doing the hip thing — playing bingo.

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‘Red watch’ friends don't let pals drink and die

Health advocates are hoping that a cheap red watch worn by college students like Alicia Nelson will become the new fashion trend on campus this fall.

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Mideast Airlines reach for the sky

Arab sheikdoms eager for higher international profiles are ratcheting up their aviation race despite the global economic slump.

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As holiday revelers lift their glasses at office parties and New Year's bashes, they may want to keep one rule of thumb in mind: the darker the liquor, the bigger the hangover.

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Parents: Would You Rather Your Teen Party at Home or Elsewhere?

Simple question. Not so simple to answer. Send them to kill people at 18 but don't allow them to drink. How stupid is that?

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Doctors have been amazed by a boozer who downed four litres of vodka in one binge and survived.

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Oprah smoked crack cocaine during a sexually charged affair, according to her dying ex-love ... and the shocking relapse came years after her first flirtation with drugs!

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Australia has long been known as a nation of beer-loving boozers. But now the government, fed up with out-of-control drinking and subsequent violence, has decided it's time for a change.

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Wisconsin is apparently the most lenient about drinking (funny, I thought it was Louisiana). Personally I don't have any issue with the "family drinking". Yawn, drinking age should be 18 anyway.

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The Brazilian man accused of murdering and dismembering the British teenager Cara Burke claims he was so high on drugs he cannot remember stabbing the 17-year-old south Londoner.

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For the past few weeks I've been working with a fellow developer on a project that required an all-out programming effort. It's done now, so we're back to a regular schedule, but when people hear about the crazy hours they often say they're sorry.

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Young adults in Europe deliberately binge on drink and drugs to improve their sex lives, research suggests. The UK has one of the worst reputations for binge drinking and underage sex but there are striking similarities between countries, a study found.

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"Wisconsin has a very serious set of problems related to alcohol use," said Moberg, a senior scientist in population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "And this has been going on for a long time."

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Women in England and Ireland are officially the world's biggest binge drinkers, according to a unique study of global alcohol consumption.

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