Had Mexico stamped its most-wanted list on a deck of playing-cards like the one used in Iraq, the pack would now look a lot thinner.

ECONOMIST: Mexico's drug war

Some people collect everything they can find from a favorite airline, while others specialize in a particular novelty, like the playing cards airlines used to give to passengers.

WSJ: Airline Collectibles Take Flight

Proprietary machines propel every stage of its new lasagne line in Parma, from the floppy curtains of fresh dough dropping on to conveyors to the dealer that stacks the cut, dried sheets like so many playing cards.

ECONOMIST: The complications of clustering

They crouch behind plywood jails, sit on oil drums painted to look like horses and fire away at steel targets shaped like cowboys, cactuses, buffaloes or playing cards.

FORBES: Draw, You Varmint!