A glance at the week that was
We now know
Japan's first Venus-bound space probefailed to enter the planet's orbit.
The fossil of a 180cm-tall storkhas been found on the Indonesian island of Flores.
A Leonardomanuscript has been found in a public library in Nantes, France.
Watch face
Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone’s bludgeoned face features in a new advert for a Swiss watch company after he was mugged for his own watch last month.
The 80-year-old was robbed by four people in London, who also stole jewellery worth £200,000.
The idea for the advert came from Ecclestone himself, who sent it to the company with the hope that it would serve as a protest against violence.
The ad’s tag line simply reads: “See what people will do for a Hublot.”
"No one is more sorry about the situation than I am - nobody"
- Taoiseach Brian Cowen apologising for the economic crisis
Fly catchers
Scientists have rediscovered one of the world's most unusual flies in Kenya, making it the first Terrible Hairy Fly(Mormotomyia hirsuta) specimen since 1948.
Unable to fly, the centimetre-long insect is believed to live exclusively in the bat-filled cleft of a 20m-high rock in an area near Nairobi.
It was located after a long hunt by the International Centre of Insect hysiology and Ecology.
At least half a dozen expeditions are known to have visited the cleft to locate it again.
The numbers
23%The obesity level in Ireland, the second worst in the EU, according to the European Commission.
3mThe number of digital books available through Google's eBook store, which launched on Monday.
€201,633The price that a Salvador Dalí watercolour of Playboy's Hugh Hefner in the nude fetched at auction.
