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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son Yair.

Netanyahu’s son under fire after ‘strip club’ tape

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son has been caught on tape seemingly drunk outside a strip club talking about a key natural gas deal

Gender bender: Normalising, moralising and a shot of reality

Peddling booze as the ultimate feminist equaliser is a dangerous marketing ploy

Drunks make themselves at home

Are parents are setting a bad example by letting their children see them in a drunken state?

Drinking their way to the top

Some bosses in China demand that their employees consume alcohol on the job.

Local is liquor

Claire Hu recommends a Christmas drinking list with a uniquely South African flavour.

Study shows mother’s light drinking does not harm baby

Women who have one or two alcoholic drinks a week during pregnancy do not harm their children’s behavioural or intellectual development.

Hangover? Take two eels and call me in the morning

Whatever the language and wherever it takes place, a hangover is the same: headache, nausea, shaking, blurred vision, biliousness and dry mouth.

Two litres of beer and hit the road, says premier

Bavaria’s embattled premier found himself in trouble on Tuesday after saying that driving is OK after two litres of beer at Germany’s Oktoberfest.

Cut back drivers’ alcohol limit, says AA

South Africa’s current blood-alcohol concentration limit of 0,05% should be lowered to 0,02% for all drivers, says the Automobile Association.

A love of beer starts at home

South Africans probably consume almost as much sorghum beer as they do lager, and roughly two-thirds of the traditional African beer is homebrewed.

A nip to numb the pain

Clinical psychologist Dr Lou-Marie Kruger says South Africans drink to self-medicate.

A culture of drunken driving

Driving drunk can change lives forever, yet many South Africans — perhaps lulled by a lack of effective law enforcement — do it every day.

The health hangover

Most South Africans say they don’t drink — about half the men and almost 80% of women claim to be abstainers.

Tippling point

South African high flyers are known to love their drink; how some of them handle it is a different story.

The Holy Grail of drinking

The perfect hangover cure has long been the Holy Grail for barflies and near-teetotallers alike.

Alcohol and the body: What it really does

Within half an hour of having a drink, alcohol molecules spread into all tissues of a human body.