Health gap in Europe wider than ever Life expectancy in Russia has marked time since the collapse of the Soviet Union but risen in its former eastern-bloc allies.
Qantas pilot tests positive for alcohol A Qantas Airways pilot failed an alcohol test after being removed from the controls of a passenger flight just minutes before take-off over concerns she had been drinking.
06 August 2012
Indonesian police arrest 62 over Ramadan bar attack Indonesian police said Monday they had arrested 62 people, most of them minors, involved in attacking a bar in south Jakarta for serving alcohol during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.
Kazakhs are better beer drinkers than KyrgyzsKazakhstan residents drink 4 times more beer than Kyrgyzs. Kyrgyzstan residents drank 49.8 million liters of beer in 2010, which is 47 percent of the total volume of alcohol consumption.