In this edition: bloggers talk about the European €1,300 billion bailout plan; the last US election debate has begun on the web; judo as portrayed by Vladimir Putin; and 'Innocence Action' continues its struggle.

Mahru is the first robot to be able to simulate emotions by emitting different fragrances, says its inventor, the South Korean Institute of Science and Technology. Its facial movements are also supposed to be the closest yet to that of man.

Around twenty brown bears looking for food in two Siberian villages have forced local authorities to impose a curfew. Bears have been roaming outside their natural forest environment this year due to a lack of berries and nuts.

In this edition: North Korea's nuclear programme as viewed by bloggers; kidnapped children in China; counterfeit power letterhead using "Fake is a Fake"; celebrity photographs on the website "Faces".

American video-game tycoon Richard Garriott has become the world's sixth space tourist, taking off for the international space station from a launch pad in Kazakhstan.

German authorities have reported a first case of the deadly H5N1 virus in a farm in Saxony. It's the first time this year that the pathogenic form of bird flu has been officially discovered on European soil.

Despite admitting to technical and budgetary problems, the NASA space agency said it still planned to send its Mars Science Laboratory to the red planet in 2009. The car-sized robotic rover is designed to roam across the Martian landscape.

The US technology colossus IBM spent more than three years working on a virtual version of the Chinese capital's forbidden city. The project, called "Forbidden City: Beyond Space & Time" is a 720,000 square-meter, 3-D replica.

Europa Film Treasures, a website launched last summer, offers free access to a collection of rare flicks from various European film archives. It spans a wide diversity of genres, from French classics to original western movies.

British press makes robot boo-boo

In this edition: Ukrainian parliament is dissolved amid leadership issue between Tymoshenko and Yushchenko; Hindus persecute Christians in India; US election continues on the web; Google is looking for ways to save the world.

The WHO said that the present financial crisis could lead to an increase in suicides and mental disorders, especially among people living in low and middle income countries where access to treatment is often limited.

Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien and Japanese citizen Osamu Shimomura on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the discovery of a fluorescent protein derived from a jellyfish that has become a vital tool in research.

From tiny tree frogs to gorillas, wild animals already facing extinction due to habitat loss, pollution and hunting must now cope with the added threat of virulent disease, conservation scientists said.

Japan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States, won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for ground-breaking theoretical work in fundamental particles.

The UN food agency cast doubt Tuesday on the potential of biofuels to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while warning that their development threatens food security.

The 2008 Red List, one of the most respected inventories of biodiversity, underlines that around quarter of species are endangered and warns about the decline of half of mammals.

France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier (pictured) won the 2008 Nobel prize for their discovery of the HIV virus, sharing it with a German scientist for his groundbreaking research into cervical cancer.

Japanese and US scientists say a giant slab of rock - a tectonic fragment 100 kilometres wide and 25 kilometres thick - under the Kanto Plain near Tokyo is a major source of the region's earthquake threat.