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Off-course penguin gets NZ health clearance

29 July 2011 Last updated at 04:26 GMT "Happy Feet", the lost penguin, could get back to Antarctica early next month A young emperor penguin found washed up on a New Zealand beach is recovering well and could swim home next month. Staff at Wellington zoo said results of an X-ray and blood test showed "Happy Feet", as it has been named, is fine after endoscopic surgery. The penguin was found on Peka Peka beach, about 60km (37 miles) north of Wellington - some 3,000km from its home in Antarctica. Experts had been reluctant to intervene as the bird appeared to be healthy. However, it later grew lethargic and was operated on to remove sand from its stomach. A Zoo spokeswoman, Kate Baker, said the penguin has gained about 4kg (9lb). It was given a first swim at the zoo earlier this week, in salt water that was cooled to below 0C (32F). Crowds have been flocking to the zoo to see the bird - the first such arrival of an Emperor penguin in New Zealand in at least 44 years...

Lyon picked for Aussie Test squad

Copeland is one of four uncapped players in the Test squad Australia have included four uncapped players in their 15-man squad for the forthcoming Test series in Sri Lanka. Off-spinner Nathan Lyon, batsman Shaun Marsh, and pacemen Trent Copeland and James Pattinson have been selected. Leg-spinner Steve Smith and seamers Ben Hilfenhaus and Doug Bollinger miss out as Michael Clarke prepares for his first Test as permanent captain. Former skipper Ricky Ponting, Shane Watson and Mike Hussey provide the experience for the three-Test series. The last Test Australia played was the final Ashes Test against England at Sydney in January - and batsman Usman Khawaja and spinner Michael Beer keep their places after making their debuts in that game. Lyon, 23, is expected to make his international debut, despite playing in only four first-class matches. He recently impressed for Australia A in Zimbabwe and earned selection ahead of Jason Krejza, who also played on that tour. Chief selector Andrew H...

Return to Fukushima

25 July 2011 Last updated at 00:00 GMT By Roland Buerk BBC News, Fukushima prefecture Residents of Fukushima had to don radiation suits to visit their former homes The people gathered in a school gym on the edge of the Fukushima exclusion zone could not have imagined, only months ago, that they would need a radiation suit to visit their own homes. They were being helped into the unfamiliar outfits by workers already wearing the white plastic overalls, overboots, masks and hats. The floors and the walls had been coated with pink plastic. Continue reading the main story "Radiation is invisible, so we are worried ...we're wearing these suits because we were told to. This is the only way we can come here. ” End Quote Shigeru Suzuki Former resident They were people who lived in the area around the reactors, still leaking radiation more than four months after they were crippled by Japan's earthquake and tsunami. Now they are being allowed to go home, but only for a few hours, t...

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