Tokyo - Tokyo stocks ended morning trading higher Tuesday as investor confidence was regained on a series of economic stimulus packages and the Asian stock market's advance the previous day.

The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average rose 320.89 points, or 3.74 per cent, to 8,897.87. The index had lost 5 per cent Friday. The Tokyo market was closed Monday for a national holiday.

The broader Topix index of all first-section issues gained 28.83 points, or 3.19 per cent, to 895.95.

Magdeburg, Germany - Antje Gesa Orths, Germany's first female wind-energy professor, has the wind at her back these days.

Orths, 41, travels the world to push renewable energies - principally wind power - and in late October gave her first lecture at Magdeburg University, where she was recently named an honorary professor.

When time allows, she also holds guest lectures at Stockholm and Copenhagen universities.