Among the bail conditions: He cannot return to the home where the shooting happened, had to give up his passport, cannot go near an airport and cannot drink alcohol.

CNN: Pistorius not suicidal, family says

But there has been no national debate on the one subject that is crying out for reconsideration: America's absurd insistence that people cannot drink until the age of 21.

ECONOMIST: A Joan of Arc, burning on the pyre of American puritanism

Oil may promise wealth, but you cannot eat or drink it.

ECONOMIST: Kazakhstan

Many people work a lot harder than footballers but the nature of our job means that we are constantly thinking about what we can and cannot eat or drink.

BBC: Bolton captain

Home is no less fraught: Uxbal is an adoring, manners-correcting father to Ana (Hanaa Bouchaib) and Mateo (Guillermo Estrella), but his estranged wife, Marambra (Maricel Alvarez), is a ruin, jagged with drink, who cannot be trusted with the kids.

NEWYORKER: Miles To Go

Singaporean leaders, it seems, would rather drink their own purified effluent than rely on Malaysia for anything, while their Malaysian counterparts cannot resist the temptation to pick a populist fight with their former compatriots.

ECONOMIST: The city state's bid for self-sufficiency