FIRST, it was Knut, the overwhelmingly cute polar bear.

POLAR bear Knut is now officially a Berliner.

A woman has suffered serious injuries after being mauled by a polar bear at Berlin Zoo.

The zookeeper who became famous for hand-rearing Knut the polar bear was found dead in his Berlin apartment today.

WITH all the fanfare of a film premiere or record release, Germany today introduced its latest winsome polar bear cub to a public eager for the first live glimpse of her.

GERMANY’S latest celebrity polar bear cub still did not have a name yesterday, but it got its own website.

A FOUR-WEEK-OLD polar bear cub that was taken from its mother amid fears she would harm it is doing well, zoo keepers said last night.

CELEBRITY polar bear Knut — who won the hearts of millions around the globe as a roly-poly orphan cub — celebrated his first birthday yesterday with a cake made from 300 eggs and 10kg of marzipan.

THREE weeks from now, a most unusual birthday will be celebrated in Berlin; Knut, the city’s polar bear cub, will be one year old.

BERLIN Zoo’s fast-growing polar bear cub Knut won’t be appearing anymore with the keeper who raised him.

Baby gorilla Mary Zwo in a hospital for humans, watched over by concerned director of Muenster Zoo, Joerg Adler.

WHILE other footballers might have celebrated winning the league with their teammates, in typical Beckham excess, David celebrated winning Spain’s La Liga with Hollywood’s elite.

TV crews and photographers crowded Berlin Zoo today to capture the first glimpse of a fuzzy white polar bear cub whose public debut was to be broadcast live.

Berlin Zoo’s abandoned polar bear cub Knut looks cute, cuddly and has become a front-page media darling, but an animal rights activist insisted today he would have been better off dead than raised by humans.

Bolton manager Sam Allardyce was at the centre of allegations about illegal payments in football made by the BBC’s Panorama programme tonight.