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03. 11. 09. - 12:00

Maradona takes the cake

Penniless child rubbish collectors in Calcutta blew their entire life savings to create a giant cake for visiting football legend Maradona - only for him to not touch a crumb.

The Indian youngsters spent more than 200 GBP on the four foot high cake in the striker's national Argentinean blue and white colours to celebrate his 49th birthday.

But the star - on a charity visit to India - refused to try even a mouthful of the treat, claiming to be on a strict diet to regain his playing physique.

Fan Kamal Akash, 12: "It was fantastic to see our hero in the flesh. We would have liked him to have had some cake but he did see it and liked it."

Austrian Times

Avalanche claims another victim in Styria
A 30-year-old snowboarder died in an avalanche on Saturday near Aflenz in Styria’s Bruck an der Mur district, police said yesterday (Sun).

Older people may benefit from being slightly overweight
Being slightly overweight may protect older people from potentially dangerous infections, a study by Vienna Medical University’s Institute for Social Medicine has concluded.

Student saved from avalanche
A student was saved by her mates on Saturday when they dug her out of the snow after she was caught in an avalanche, police said.

Austria 'might help' Greece, says minister
People’s Party (ÖVP) Finance Minister Josef Pröll said on Saturday that Austria might play a secondary role in helping almost bankrupt Greece.

Three injured when hayloft collapses
Three people were seriously injured Saturday night when a hayloft hosting a party collapsed, sending two of them plunging four metres to the floor, police said yesterday (Sun).

Rapid win Vienna derby
Rapid Vienna retained their chances of winning a 33rd league title after beating city rivals Austria Vienna in yesterday’s 292nd Viennese derby.

Austrian men have the most sex partners
Austrian men have the most sex partners in the world, according to the British newspaper The Sun.

Kaltenbrunner's assault on Mount Everest called into question
Upper Austrian extreme mountain climber Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner’s planned assault on Mount Everest (8,848 metres) could be thwarted because of Chinese law, according to today’s edition (Mon) of the newspaper Oberösterreichische Nachrichten.

Toddler survives fall from window
A two-year-old girl who fell three metres from the window of her bedroom on Saturday, was unhurt after landing on a blanket of snow, police say.

Perv doc pays inmates for porn pics
A 43-year-old doctor who paid mental patients for pornographic photos has been arrested in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, reports yesterday’s edition (Sun) of the newspaper Kurier.