As thousands of Irish citizens took to the streets in celebration of St. Patrick's Day, several leaders have raised concerns about the need for people to practice restraint when drinking during the celebration. Local authorities announced that they will be keeping a closer eye on people's drinking consumption for this year's celebration, in an effort to avoid incidents such as street fighting or drunk driving - events that have reportedly occurred in the past, right after the celebrations.

Doctors in England restored the eyesight of a blind man by inserting his son's tooth into his eye. Bob McNichol, 57, was blinded two years ago at an aluminum explosion. "I thought that I was going to be blind for the rest of my life," McNichol told RTE state radio, AFP reported.

A recently conducted survey revealed that British citizens are becoming more liberal when it comes to sexual activity, with most finding nothing wrong with having premarital sex. With 3,000 respondents, the annually taken British Social Attitudes survey revealed that 70 percent of its randomly-chosen respondents think that there is nothing particularly wrong with engaging in sexual encounters with partners before marriage. The number indicated a significant difference from the 48 percent recorded back in 1984.

A dog was taken to a local veterinary clinic in Austria with the animal displaying symptoms including constant vomiting and swaying side to side. The vet said it was apparent the dog was drunk. "When I got him up on the table, it smelled like a distillery," said Karl Hofbauer of the Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten in the Salzkammergut region.

Authorities said Monday that a 10-year-old Mexican boy glued his hand to his bed because he was still not ready to go back to school after the Christmas vacation. "I thought if I was glued to the bed, they couldn't make me go to school. I didn't want to go, the holidays were so much fun," the boy Diego told AFP.