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Panda Newborn: First Colour Pic

Michael Leidig

Oh baby, just look at you now.

This 11-day-old baby panda was first seen as a tiny, hairless, pale newborn in grainy black and white CCTV images after its birth in Vienna's Schoenbrunn zoo.

Now this amazing colour snapshot - by panda specialist Eveline Dungl - shows the youngster has tripled her birth weight and begun to develop the species' distinctive black and white markings.

Zoo director Dagmar Schratter said: "The young panda is developing marvelously. It has already grown a short black coat on the ears, shoulders and haunches underneath the baby fluff.

"And it also has panda proportions now – it's not so long and thin anymore like it was at birth."

Now mum Yang Yang and her cub - whose sex is still unknown - are to be left in peace until they go on show to the public later this year.

Panda expert Eveline Dungl added: "We think the baby weighs around seven ounces – that's more than twice its birth weight."

"You can also clearly see its milk belly," she joked

Miserable plot
Jilted hubby Florin Dan Munteanu, 38, who allegedly tried to kill his wife with a bomb hidden inside a copy of the book 'Les Miserables' has been arrested after it blew up his mother-in-law instead, say police in Petrosan, Romania.

Woman's torso found in basement
The torso of a woman was found at the basement of a block of flats in Botosani, northern Romania.

Football champions stranded in snow
Nine players from Romania's football champions team - who met Manchester United in the Champions League playoffs - have been stranded for over 20 hours on a train, after they had left Galati for Bucharest on Monday, it emerged today (Tues).

New Prime Minister forms his team
The new prime minister (PM) will present his team tonight (Tues), after consultations with the political parties.

Former deputy sentenced to 5 years in jail
Former Romanian Chamber of Deputies member Emilian Cutean, from the Social Democrat Party (PSD) was sentenced definitively to five years in jail by the Court of Appeal in Bucharest today (Tues).

Seven buses caught up in snow
Seven buses with 450 passengers were stuck in the snow for more than seven hours in southeastern Romania, last night (Mon/Tues).

Central bank hikes inflation prognosis
Romania's Central Bank Governor Mugur Isarescu said today (Tues) the central bank had hiked the inflation prognosis from 3 per cent to 3.2 per cent in 2012.

Millions of Euro losses per day due to snowy roads
Losses of as much as 100 million Euros per day are estimated by the Associtation of Importers and Exporters in Romania (ANEIR), due to the weather conditions, as tens of national roads are blocked by snow and blizzards.

AA introduces new flights from Bucharest to Vienna
Austrian Airlines (AA) announced today (Tues) that it would increase the number of flights from Romania in the summer season.

Anti-corruption chief prosecutor's mandate extended
The chief of the National Anti-corruption Department (DNA), Daniel Morar, has his mandate prolonged for another six months the General Prosecutor Codruta Kovesi, said today (Tues).