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 cheetah at a zoo in Nuremberg has died after contracting an illness similar to mad cow disease, becoming the first confirmed case in Germany of feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE), city authorities said today.