Binge drinking

In a study of men in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), heavy drinking males were more likely to commit violence against their wives and girlfriends (intimate partner violence, or IPV) if they held sexist rather than egalitarian attitudes about women.

Scotland introduced minimum unit pricing on alcohol on May 1 as it tries to improve public health by raising the cost of cheap, strong drinks favored by young people and binge-drinkers.

A Greek court gave a suspended sentence March 20 to a Turkish man who ran across the tense Greek-Turkish border after a drinking binge.

Britons need to drink less as any alcohol consumption increases the risk of cancer and other diseases, the government's health chiefs said in the first new guidelines issued for 20 years which were denounced by critics as "nanny state" scaremongering. 

A Walking Dead fan in Albuguergue, New Mexico, budgeoned his friend to death after a marathon viewing of the Walking Dead. Damon Perry, aged 23, states he attacked his friend Christopher Paquin, aged 23, with kicks and shap objects including items such as a guitar and a microwave oven.

Believe it or not, excluding teetotallers the world's biggest drinkers are in Chad and the united Arab Emirates, consuming 33.9 and 32.8 liters of alcohol annually, according to the Lancet. This puts Brits far behind with just an average of 13.8 liters per year. Greeks just make it into the 10-15 litre category, drinking 10.3 liters of alcohol.