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It was an inelegant intruder on a sunny afternoon: a chunk of ice from a jetliner toilet that broke free and slammed into an Austrian family’s garden. No one was injured when the ice tumbled from the sky on Sunday afternoon in Graz, about 200km south of Vienna, authorities said.

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday presented a prize to Austrian mountain climber and writer Heinrich Harrer, who wrote of his real-life experiences in his best-selling book ”Seven Years in Tibet”.