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GERMANY: A teacher has won a case for work-related injury she suffered when she fell off a bench while dancing in a beer tent on a school trip.

The unnamed teacher was visiting a beer festival with pupils when the bench toppled and the woman suffered back injuries that kept her off work for a month.

A regional court in Stuttgart sided with the teacher against her employer, the south-western German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, which claimed what she did was not part of her job.