News Roundup: Trial of strength at 2,000 meters altitude; Man bites snake
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Trial of strength at 2,000 meters altitude: Celtic wrestling in Austria
Every year around St. Jacob's Day, men from Austria's Salzburg region grapple with each other in a natural arena at the top of the Hundstein mountain in a traditional martial arts contest - the Hundstoa, or Jakobi Ranggeln. The Celtic wrestling tradition, which was included in UNESCO's cultural heritage list in 2010, goes back more than 500 years.
'Definitely weird': man bites snake
An Indian man who was bitten by a snake got his revenge on the reptile by biting it back and killing it, the man's father said on Monday. The man, Raj Kumar, was relaxing at home, enjoying a drink on Sunday, when a snake slithered into his house in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, and bit him, said his father.
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