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SEOUL - A SOUTH Korean woman who was allegedly stabbed repeatedly by her husband and pushed down a 100m cliff survived the attacks and reported him to police, a police official said on Wednesday.

The 44-year-old woman was stabbed four times in her chest and stomach in an argument last week with her 56-year-old husband, who suspected she was seeing another man.

The man then put his wife in a car, drove to a remote rugged area in the north-eastern county of Goseong and pushed her off the cliff, a senior detective said.

Media reports said the man initially planned to take his wife to hospital by car after the stabbing, but changed his mind and pushed her down the cliff when he saw she was motionless.

But she regained consciousness the following day, climbed back up the cliff and was rescued by a passing driver. Her fall is believed to have been broken by thickets of grass and brushwood.

'It was like a miracle that she survived multiple stab wounds and the fall,' the defective said, adding the husband has been arrested. The couple married early this year. -- AFP

Source: The Straits Times

SYDNEY - AN AUSTRALIAN woman injured when a hotel room light fitting fell and hit her on the face while she was having sex on a work trip sued the government on Wednesday, claiming she was entitled to compensation.

The woman suffered injuries to her nose, mouth and a tooth and was mentally scarred after the glass fitting fell from the wall over the bed and struck her in the face as she had sex, her lawyer said.

A government employee, she was staying overnight at a rural hotel ahead of a meeting and has lodged a case in the Federal Court claiming she should get damages because the incident happened while she was on official business.

Her lawyer, Mr Leo Grey, told judge John Nicholas the woman was hurt in 'an ordinary incident of life commonly undertaken in a motel room at night', and she was not required to get official permission to have someone in her room.

'This is not the 1920s after all,' said Mr Grey. ComCare, the government's workplace safety agency, is opposing the claim, saying the sex was with an acquaintance who had nothing to do with work and was a 'frolic of her own'.

Comcare lawyer Andrew Berger said people on government business needed to eat, sleep and attend to their personal hygiene but 'you don't need to have sex'. -- AFP

Source: The Straits Times