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Brussels - NATO ambassadors held talks with their Russian counterpart on Monday for the first time since the alliance froze relations with Moscow in the aftermath of August's conflict in Georgia.

NATO spokesman James Appathurai said no formal agenda had been set for the meeting, which was to last "about an hour" at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels.

NATO placed high-level meetings of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC), which governs relations with its Cold War enemy, on hold to protest Russia's invasion of Georgia.

These days, scientists are busy in developing ‘Love potion.’ Animal studies have shown that the hormone oxytocin can 'reinforce' emotional feelings and enhance monogamy.

Research team led by Prof. Larry Young of Emory University in Georgia are studying the brain chemistry responsible for the complex feelings that actually draw people to a particular member of the opposite sex as well as help in keeping humans monogamous.

Prof. Larry Young said that there is intriguing overlap between the brain areas involved in vole pair bonding and those associated with human love.

Tbilisi/Moscow  - Georgia was hailed by the West as a beacon of democracy and growth in the Caucasus. It had the third largest contingent of troops in Iraq and seemed on a steady track for NATO membership - before its war with Russia.

Tbilisi/Moscow - Four months after the war it lost to Russia, the Georgian Parliament Thursday charged that the government as well as the military had made serious mistakes in the South Ossetian conflict.

In a report released late in the evening in the Georgian capital, the special commission also blamed Russia as the party which pushed the level of conflict to open warfare, according to media reports in Tbilisi.

The report also charged that the Georgian government, despite having good intelligence, was badly prepared for the war over the renegade areas of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It said the war was waged without agreement within the cabinet.

Geneva - Agreement was reached Thursday to allow humanitarian aid workers and assistance to reach some of the most vulnerable refugees from the Russian-Georgian war this past summer, senior diplomats said.

While the agreement said the sides would strive to let the aid into areas within South Ossetia and Abkhazia to aid internally displaced people there before the end of the year, no rigid timeline was agreed upon, the negotiators told dpa.