THE mother of a missing student has warned other young people about the dangers of playing drinking games after revealing her son was involved in them before his disappearance.

Parental addiction and other factors should be taken into account when considering a new definition of child poverty, a cabinet minister is to say.

Binge drinking causes insulin resistance, which increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes, according to the results of an animal study led by researchers at the Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Med

The Associated Press= Germans are emptying fewer beer steins these days. Consumption of the national beverage fell by 1.8 percent last year to the lowest level since West and East Germany reunified in 1990.

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Women in Wales are more likely to die from alcohol-related causes than women in England, according to official figures.

Men are twice as likely as women to die from alcohol-related causes, figures suggest. In 2011, about 66% of the 8,748 alcohol-related deaths in the UK were men and around 33% were women, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

Little consensus exists among Europe's 27 member states on safe or sensible alcohol consumption. Little consensus exists among Europe's 27 member states on safe or sensible alcohol consumption.