Saturday, January 12, 2008

Germanys newest celebrity:


BERLIN -

You know who the latest celebrity in Germany is?Any guesses.

Its latest celebrity is a polar bear cub.It remains nameless — but already boasts a dedicated Web site providing details of its health and giving readers a chance to christen the cuddly creature.

The city of Nuremberg, in cooperation with its zoo,which launched the site on friday lures viewers with a gallery of photos of the winsome 4-week-old cub.Visitors also were inundating the site's operators with suggestions for names.

The bottle-fed cub now weighs 4.4 pounds and is about 13.8 inches long. If it cries, a nearby baby monitor alerts its four keepers.

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