BUXTEHUDER AND CLUJ DEFY ODDS TO PROGRESS

Having entered the qualifying tournaments as dark horses, Buxtehuder SV and Universitatea Jolidon Cluj sprung major upsets to reach the last 16 in Europe’s premier club competition, while Viborg and Zvezda lived up to expectations. The four teams joined Rail Cargo Hungaria, who clinched their own berth on Saturday, as the last five teams to qualify for the 2012-13 women’s EHF Champions League.

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Romanian tourism guide offers free holiday for foreign bikers stoned by villagers

A tourism guide from Cluj Napoca offered to pay for a trip in Transylvania for the foreign tourists who were recently attacked with stones in a village in Salaj county. The guide, Traian Almasan, 25, offered to pay for the cost of a trip for all of the 19 tourists. They however refused because they didn’t have time and already had their return plane tickets. The tourists were amazed by Almasan’s letter but had to refuse, and couldn’t see any prospects of returning to Romania, as many of them were from Australia.

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