Experts brand as unreliable the key evidence that Raffaele Sollecito’s DNA was found on victim Meredith Kercher’s bra The appeal by Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend against their convictions for the killing of British student Meredith Kercher took a sensational turn on Wednesday when independent, court-appointed experts dismissed as unreliable forensic evidence crucial to the prosecution case. Two Rome university professors said there was no certainty that traces of DNA found on the alleged murder weapon belonged to Kercher. They added that the vital piece of evidence which linked Knox’s ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, to the scene of the murder – a trace of his DNA on Kercher’s bra clip – could have got there by contamination, as the defence maintained at the trial. The breakthrough for the appellants came just two days after their case suffered a hefty setback. On Monday, Rudy Guede, who has also been convicted and jailed for the murder, repeated his claim that Knox and Sollecito had carried out the killing. What sealed the case against them at their trial, however, was not so much Guede’s changed story as testimony from a string of police scientific experts that appeared to support the prosecutors’ claim that Kercher died in a bizarre sex game involving all three defendants. However, the appeal court’s experts were scathing in their criticism of the reliability of that evidence. “The international procedures for the inspection [of the scene of a crime] were not followed,” professors Stefano Conti and Carla Vecciotti said in their report. Nor had the police respected international standards for the collection and bagging of exhibits. The DNA traces on the knife “appear unreliable in as much as [they were] not supported by scientifically validated analytic procedures”. Knox and Sollecito are currently serving sentences of 26 and 25 years respectively for the murder. Guede was given a reduced, 16-year sentence after a plea bargain. Amanda Knox Meredith Kercher Italy United States Europe John Hooper guardian.co.uk
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• Hit F5 to refresh or turn on the automatic widget below • Email thoughts and chat to evanfanning@gmail.com • Follow all today’s game and more in our daily live blog • Follow Evan on Twitter, if that’s your thing First set: Murray* 5-2 Lopez Murray holds serve comfortably which allows us to put on our casting agent hats once more. “Less Deliciano, more Christopher Lambert in Greystoke mode surely?” writes Yvonne Fletcher. Now we’re getting somewhere. “I’m happy with Ewan MacGregor as Andy, and surely it’s Maggie Smith as Judy Murray?” writes Integra. “I’m wondering about Javier Bardem as Deliciano, mainly because I just watched Biutiful last night and can’t get him out of my head. He’s probably a bit too ugly and a bit too hairy though. Maybe if Wilkinson Sword sponsored him as well…..” I think this man needs to play one of the Murray brothers. First set: Murray 4-2 Lopez* Murray breaks Lopez and pumps his fist in celebration after a game that felt like it was going to go on forever. Murray three times had break point and sensed blood for the opening point when Lopez tried a very deft drop shot which turns out to be a very foolish drop shot as it hits the net. Lopez challenges a call mid-point and it was the right decision as the ball is seen to be well inside the baseline (although it’s later confirmed that Lopez’s serve on that point was out but was missed by both Murray and the umpire). Murray then challenges a call after a fantastic rally where Lopez was at the net but on the back foot, but somehow found return after return and eventually pushed Murray to the backline and his return was between the tramlines, as Hawkeye confirms. It doesn’t put Murray off and he eventually takes the game after yet another attempt at a drop shot from Lopez hits the net. First set: Murray* 3-2 Lopez A less impressive service game this time round from Murray, but he still manages to hold serve (losing a challenge on the way). “Were the genders different,” writes Paul Szabo. “We might have a Mrs. Robinson/’Graduate’ situation, eh? I can see Dustin Hoffman playing the Lopez part quite easily, long hair and all.” Assuming the situation is at is is, who today would play the three protagonists in the picture above. Ewan McGregor as Andy Murray? First set: Murray 2-2 Lopez* It’s going with serve so far. Lopez is looking to get to the net at every opportunity and he shows how dangerous he is if his serve and volley game goes according to plan winning two successive points. He’s less impressive from the backline, hitting the net when he really should have done better but is rescued by his serve as an ace wins the game. Tom Gardiner has an idea: “Don’t you think if tennis was the kind of game where sledging went on, Lopez has an open goal two yards out? Imagine what Shane Warne would have made of the opportunity Judy Murray has presented ‘Deliciano’.” First set: Murray* 2-1 Lopez Murray holds serve comfortably, losing just one point and winning the game with a lovely cross-court forehand which Lopez didn’t even bother chasing. “Re the shaved legs,” writes Gary Naylor, “cyclists do it not to minimise wind resistance, but to ensure that scrapes, burns and road rash wounds do not become infected and so heal more quickly. It probably helps the soigneurs in their massaging at the end of the day too. And it does improve looks, though Snr Lopez doesn’t look like he needs much help in that department – unlike his opponent.” Whatever the reason it gets Judy Murray going. First set: Murray 1-1 Lopez* Lopez holds serve after a scrappy game. The Spaniard produced his first double-fault – his 18th of the tournament so far, which is relatively low. Lopez also has his first (unsuccessful) challenge of the game. Both make unforced errors, Lopez coming at game point, but a a poor Murray drop shot allows Lopez to take the advantage once again and this time Murray can’t clear the net as he returned a booming serve. First set: Murray* 1-0 Lopez Murray wins the game to love and that will settle whatever nerves he has. A lovely, gentle opening point that was so laid-back they could have had a conversation while playing it. Murray then steps it hitting two aces – the second his 50th of the tournament, half of what Lopez has hit – to take the game. Lopez, incidentally, has newly-shaved legs. Why does he do that? We’re about to start but there are very few people in Centre Court. They’ve all gone for refreshment following the epic Tsonga-Federer match. Andy Murray to serve … “The Americans are not even broadcasting his match,” says Daniel John McGrath. “On their Telly. Which is a pretty ugly snub.” That’s the kind of stirring statement that needs to be stuck on Andy Murray’s dressing room door. And Feliciano Lopez’s door come to think of it. Game-by-game exclusive (from the Johann Hari school of exclusives – i.e. they just said it on BBC) Feliciano Lopez expects Judy Murray to support her son in today’s game. He didn’t mention anything about dinner tonight. Kenny MacLeod has a dance for Andy. “The Sword Dance – and with sponsorship: The Wilkinson Sword Dance.” You, sir, should be an agent. Reasons for Andy Murray to be worried … Feliciano López has already hit 100 aces in this year’s tournament, more than any of the remaining players. Murray’s biggest area of weakness so far has been his serve return. Just in case you haven’t heard the gasps of disbelief I should tell you that Jo-Wilfried Tsonga came from two sets down to beat Roger Federer and reach the last four . He then produced a truly spectacular version of his trademark dance. Andy Murray needs a trademark dance, but what should it be? Answers to the usual address. Preamble There are some interesting betting markets on this game. Not so much on whether Andy Murray will defeat Feliciano López and reach a third straight Wimbledon semi-final (that’s a ridiculously short 1-10), but instead the focus is on Judy Murray, who has expressed her admiration for her son’s opponent, the man she calls ‘Deliciano’ López. You can get 20-1 on Judy wolf-whistling at López at some stage (the bet of the day as far as I’m concerned), and you can get the same price on the Spaniard blowing Judy a kiss from the court. It’s 30-1 that they’ll be spotted having a romantic dinner somewhere in SW19 later tonight so if you work in a nearby restaurant and have just taken a booking for a table for two under the name J Murray I would pop round to your nearest bookies as soon as you can. Given that we know that Judy ♥ Feliciano, has anyone bothered finding out if Feliciano ♥ Judy? If he does, we could pack the two of them off behind the Wimbledon bike shed and give Andy a bye into the next round. Would this be a satisfactory outcome for Andy? To exchange seeing his mother disappear into the sunset with a rival in exchange for a place in the semi? That’s the big question of the day. That, and why is there no love for Mardy Fish? Wimbledon 2011 Andy Murray Tennis Wimbledon Evan Fanning guardian.co.uk
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Click here to view this media Looks like some more bad news for the Bachmann presidential campaign — Bachmann’s husband got $137,000 in Medicaid funds : While Rep. Michele Bachmann has forcefully denounced the Medicaid program for swelling the “welfare rolls,” the mental health clinic run by her husband has been collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by NBC News. The previously unreported payments are on top of the $24,000 in federal and state funds that Bachmann & Associates, the clinic founded by Marcus Bachmann, a clinical therapist, received in recent years under a state grant to train its employees, state records show. The figures were provided to NBC News in response to a Freedom of Information request. The clinic, based in Lake Elmo, Minn., describes itself on its website as offering “quality Christian counseling” for a large number of mental health problems ranging from “anger management” to addictions and eating disorders. The $161,000 in payments from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to her husband’s clinic appear to contradict some of Michelle Bachmann’s public accounts this week when she was first asked about the extent to which her family has benefited from government aid. Contacted this afternoon, Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for Bachmann, said the congresswoman was doing campaign events and was not immediately available for comment. Questions about the Bachmann family’s receipt of government funds arose this week after a Los Angeles Times story reported that a family farm in which Michelle Bachmann is a partner had received nearly $260,000 in federal farm subsidies. When asked by anchor Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” about the story’s assertion that her husband’s counseling clinic had also gotten federal and state funds, Bachmann replied that it was “one-time training money that came from the federal government. And it certainly didn’t help our clinic.” At another point, she said, “My husband and I did not get the money,” adding that it was “mental health training money that went to the employees.” But state records show that Bachmann & Associates has been collecting payments under the Minnesota’s Medicaid program every year for the past six years. Karen Smigielski, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services, said the state’s Medicaid program is funded “about 50-50″ with federal and state monies. The funds to Bachmann & Associates are for the treatment of low-income mentally ill patients and are based on a “fee for service” basis, meaning the clinic was reimbursed by Medicaid for the services it provided. Read on… And keep in mind that this clinic of his is reportedly one where they “pray away the gay” as TPM wrote about back in ’06 — MN-06: Does GOPer Bachmann’s Husband “Ungay” Homosexuals? : Does GOP House candidate Michelle Bachman’s husband “ungay” homosexuals as part of his therapy practice? That’s the charge made in a new profile of Bachmann published Wednesday in the Minneapolis City Pages . “Some observers claim that the mission of the practice includes counseling homosexuals in an effort to “ungay” them,” the paper says. Marcus Bachmann denies it. But the paper also describes a conference where Marcus Bachmann gave a presentation called “The Truth About the Homosexual Agenda,” in which he presented three “ungayed” individuals whom he held up as proof that homosexuality can be “cured.” More after the jump. In the piece, a local gay man named Curt Prins describes the conference and the scene where Bachmann gave his presentation: The climax of the presentation was when, according to Prins, Bachmann brought up “three ex-gays, like part of a PowerPoint presentation.” The trio, two white men and a black woman, all testified that they had renounced their homosexuality. “One of them said, ‘If I was born gay, then I’ll have to be born again,’” Prins recalls. “The crowd went crazy.” Fact Check has more on Bachmann’s recent “slew of off-base claims” which is a polite term for lies — Bachmann’s Waterloo : The GOP lawmaker’s presidential campaign starts with a slew of off-base claims. Summary Rep. Michele Bachmann officially joined the presidential campaign trail, but made a flurry of false and misleading claims along the way. The Minnesota Republican appeared on two Sunday talk shows the day before giving her formal announcement speech in Waterloo, Iowa. On the shows, she made false statements about income from her family farm and government subsidies to her husband’s business. She also made misstatements regarding earmarks, federal pay, government-owned “limousines” and health care: Bachmann falsely claimed that she and her husband “have never gotten a penny” from a family farm that received federal subsidies. But she reported income from the farm in 2006, 2008 and 2009 — the most recent year available — on her congressional financial disclosure statements. She claimed she had been “faithful” to her pledge not to request federal earmarks. But she requested $40 million in transportation earmarks in the 2009 fiscal year budget after taking the pledge, later claiming such projects should not be subjected to her promise. She withdrew her requests after the House Republicans took a party position in 2010 not to seek earmarks. Bachmann wrongly blamed President Obama for increasing the number of federal transportation workers who earn more than $170,000 from one to 1,690 during the recession. At least two-thirds of those employees were receiving more than $170,000 before Obama took office. She criticized the president for a 73 percent increase in government “limousines.” But one department accounted for the increase, and it had a long-term plan, pre-dating Obama, to add armored vehicles. The term “limousine” includes armored vehicles and sedans, not just actual limos. She claimed government money received by her husband’s counseling clinics did not benefit the business, because the funds paid for employee training. It’s true the clinics received $24,041 for training, but the business received thousands more in government funds, including money for treating crime victims. The three-term congresswoman repeated — on two Sunday shows — the false claim that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the federal health care law will “cost the economy 800,000 jobs.” The CBO never said that. It said there will be a “small” impact on jobs. When she got to Waterloo to deliver her first official campaign speech, Bachmann made her now viral gaffe in saying that tough-guy actor John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. The Duke was born in Winterset, Iowa, and was raised in California. It was John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer, who was from Waterloo. Lots more details there following up on their summary, so go read the rest.
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Six paramilitary soldiers to be tried by civilian court after being caught on camera apparently shooting unarmed suspect Sarfaraz Shah Six Pakistani paramilitary soldiers face a possible death sentence after being charged with the murder of an unarmed civilian in a Karachi park this month. The shooting in broad daylight of Sarfaraz Shah, who was accused of theft, led to a national furore after a video of his death was aired on television . Many Pakistanis were horrified to see a uniformed man shoot the 22-year-old twice at point blank range as he begged for mercy, then watch him bleed to death. A civilian who dragged Shah towards the rangers, seen on camera grabbing him by the hair, has also been charged. If convicted, all seven face the death penalty. “The court has formally framed charges of murder and terrorism against all the accused,” prosecutor Mohammad Khan Buriro told reporters. The accused men have pleaded not guilty. The brutality of the slaying amplified strong criticism of Pakistan’s security forces that started with the death of Osama bin Laden on 2 May, reaching as far as the national parliament. The scrutiny has brought some changes. The six soldiers are standing trial before a civilian court instead of a military tribunal, as is usually the case. The supreme court had taken the rare step of ordering the head of the Sindh Rangers, a two-star general, to be transferred. The army says it will comply. The security forces are beset by other scandals too. In western Balochistan province Frontier Corps paramilitaries are under investigation for the shooting of five unarmed Chechens, including a pregnant woman, at a checkpoint. The corps initially claimed they were suicide bombers, which proved to be untrue. Video footage showed the Chechens trying to surrender as they were being shot. In Islamabad a judicial inquiry has been launched into the death of investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad, who was found dead after disappearing from the city centre. He had previously told colleagues he feared his life was in danger from the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency . The ISI has denied the allegation. Scenes of death and destruction have become commonplace on Pakistan television since a wave of Taliban attacks in major cities started four years ago. But Pakistanis were shocked at the images of Shah’s death because they showed the young man screaming as he slowly died in a public park named after the assassinated prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Police said they recovered an imitation pistol from Shah’s body, heightening suspicions that he was a thief. But the video evidence swung public opinion firmly against the soldiers. “The video had a huge impact. No civilised force has the right to shoot an unarmed man,” said Zafar Hilaly, a retired diplomat. The shooting was filmed by a TV cameraman with a local station. The journalists’ union in Karachi said the reporter had received death threats and had been pressured by the authorities to “say it was a fake”. Videos have played a prominent role in Pakistan in recent years. In 2009 the country was electrified by a footage of Taliban militants whipping a young girl in Swat , triggering outrage that paved the way for an army assault months later. Last year a video emerged of soldiers executing blindfolded militants , also in Swat, triggering criticism from the US that forced the army chief to order a military inquiry. No findings have yet been made public. Pakistan Declan Walsh guardian.co.uk
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Meteorologists call for more lightning conductors as 38 children injured in same incident are admitted to hospital with burns Eighteen schoolchildren and their teacher have been killed in a lightning strike in Uganda, police said. The country has one of the highest rates of lightning deaths in the world and its capital, Kampala, has more days of lightning per year than any other city, according to the World Meteorological Organisation . The lightning hit the victims in a classroom at a school in Kiryandongo, 130 miles north of Kampala. Another 38 children were admitted to hospital. The east African country has suffered several fatal lightning strikes in recent weeks during unseasonably heavy rains. The deaths were debated in parliament on Monday, with MPs calling on the government to come up with strategy to deal with what several termed “a crisis”. “I don’t know which minister is in charge of the lightning but let the government come up with a statement to inform the country on what is going on and how we can manage it,” speaker Rebecca Kadaga said. Local meteorologists have criticised the government for not providing enough lightning conductors for buildings in storm hotspots. “The 19 were killed in a single lightning strike on Monday,” a police spokesman said. “They were ready to leave school but there was a heavy downpour and so they sheltered in the classroom and then, all of a sudden, it struck.” Police said 15 of the 38 injured were still in hospital being treated for burns. Local media quoted medical officials in Kiryandongo predicting the death toll could rise. The state-owned New Vision newspaper said on Tuesday that at least 40 people had been killed by lightning strikes in recent weeks. The police did not give an official death toll. Many of the strikes have killed children. Three siblings aged four, six and eight were killed while sheltering under a tree on their way home from school last week and another two children were killed the week before, police said. Uganda Natural disasters and extreme weather Africa guardian.co.uk
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Arab Israelis and Palestinians say arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah in London is ‘strange’ and ‘illegitimate’, and call for his release Arab Israelis and Palestinians have accused the British government of collaborating with Israel in detaining Sheikh Raed Salah , the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Ibrahim Sarsur, a United Arab List member of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, described the arrest of Salah as “strange”. He said: “Sheikh Salah is one of the leading figures in the Arab Israeli community. He travelled to the UK legitimately, and he had no knowledge of any ban on his entering the UK, so we are surprised and disappointed by this illegitimate procedure.” Sarsur called on Britain to release Salah immediately. “We know that Israel is not happy with anyone that opposes its policies, but we see Britain as the most democratic place in the world and the birthplace of democracy. Britain should deal with delicate matters of the Middle East with delicacy and not act as a collaborator with the Israeli government.” Ben White, a writer and activist who was due to speak at an event with Salah on Wednesday, said there was a stark contrast between how Britain treated Palestinian and Israeli leaders. “The same government that sent police to arrest a Palestinian civil society leader from his hotel bedroom is changing UK legislation explicitly to facilitate the entry of accused Israeli war criminals,” he said. Israel has acted angrily in the past when its army officers and politicians have been threatened with arrest, such as when the former foreign minister Tzipi Livni had to postpone a trip to the UK to avoid arrest in 2009. A spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry said that the Israeli consulate in London had been informed of the arrest as would happen with the arrest of any Israeli. “It’s up to the British authorities to explain the reason for the arrest. Sheikh Raed Salah will be visited by consular officials if it is necessary.” Salah is despised by Israel’s right wing and his arrest was used as an opportunity by one member of the Knesset to launch his own “Raed Salah bill”. Alex Miller of the Israel Our Home party said the bill would prevent people such as Salah, convicted of aiding a terrorist organisation, from using government-funded institutions. “If the British government forbade this man from entering its territory because of his extremist views and a fear that he would use public and academic forums to incite violence and racism, there is no reason the Israeli government should give that pleasure to Salah and his peers,” Miller told the Jerusalem Post. Israel Middle East Palestinian territories London Conal Urquhart guardian.co.uk
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Man with fetish for cutting locks of hair from women faces extradition over earlier killing of teenager in Italy A man with a fetish for surreptitiously cutting locks of hair from girls and women has been found guilty of murdering a British seamstress and now faces extradition over the killing of a teenager in Italy. Danilo Restivo was convicted of killing his neighbour, Heather Barnett, at her Bournemouth flat and mutilating her body before placing a hank of someone else’s hair in her right hand and a clump of her own beneath her left. During his seven-week trial at Winchester crown court, Restivo, an Italian national, was also accused of killing 16-year-old Elisa Claps in the loft of a church in Potenza, southern Italy, and leaving cut strands of her own hair in her hands and next to her body. Both women suffered wounds to their chests but the jury was told the killer’s “hallmark” was to leave cut hair at the scene. Restivo admitted he had a “fetish” for cutting hair from women and girls in the UK and Italy, often while they travelled on buses. The court was told he had cut the hair of 15 women in the UK and nine in Italy. Restivo, 39, was born in Sicily and lived in Potenza before moving to Bournemouth in Dorset in May 2002. Police quickly came to believe Restivo had killed Barnett, 48, in November 2002 and kept him under intense surveillance amid fears he would strike again. But it was not until Claps’s body was discovered in the church loft where she had been killed in 2010 – 17 years after she vanished – that the British authorities felt they could make a case against Restivo largely based on the similarities of the two ritualistic murders. The Italian authorities want Restivo extradited to face trial over the murder of Elisa Claps. Officers may also quiz him about other unsolved murders in Italy. In the UK the Criminal Cases Review Commission has been watching the Restivo trial because the legal team for a man called Omar Benguit convicted of killing a student, Jong Ok Shin, in July 2002 three streets from Heather Barnett’s home claim that Restivo could also be guilty of that attack. Shin was also stabbed to death. Crime Italy Europe Steven Morris guardian.co.uk
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Click here to view this media Greta Van Susteren already has a record of favoritism when it comes to Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, so it probably wasn’t any surprise when she devoted a segment of her show the other night to suggesting loudly that Prosser was being set up by the woman he allegedly tried to throttle , Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, as well as the court’s Chief Justice, Shirley Abrahamson, whom he has previously attacked verbally as a “total bitch” . Indeed, that’s largely a continuation of Van Susteren’s previous narrative around Prosser — namely, that Prosser is the innocent victim of a campaign cooked up against him by conniving feminist justices in Wisconsin. And the heated denials and countercharges coming from Prosser and his many ardent defenders (including the Planet Bizarro that is the Althouseosphere) have certainly played into that narrative. It’s almost as if they’re colluding. Van Susteren is promising “more to this story”. What’s next? Some Breitbartesque e-mail thefts, perhaps? Well, it’s their only possible narrative short of abject humiliation, so of course they’re sticking to it.
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Penguin found on North Island’s Peka Peka beach is to be freed in the Southern Ocean rather than be ferried back to Antarctica It has wandered thousands of miles off course, ending up confused, lost and in hospital, but a young emperor penguin that reached New Zealand must now find its own way home. Wildlife officials have decided to help the penguin – dubbed Happy Feet after the 2006 animated film – find its way back to its Antarctic home 2,000 miles from New Zealand’s North Island, but stopped short of giving it a lift all the way. The bird, which is 3ft (90cm) tall, will be taken part of the way home and freed into the Southern Ocean, south-east of New Zealand, and will be expected to swim the rest of the way. When Happy Feet was found on Peka Peka beach last week , it was the first time in 44 years the species has been sighted in New Zealand. Since then, wildlife experts – who are not sure if Happy Feet is male or female – have debated the best way to get the bird home. An initial suggestion of taking the penguin all the way back to the Antarctic was dismissed because of logistical difficulties and fears Happy Feet could have picked up infections while in New Zealand, which it could pass on to other penguins. An advisory group decided it would give the hapless penguin a helping hand, but it would have to do the bulk of the work. “The reason for not returning the penguin directly to Antarctica is that emperor penguins of this age are usually found north of Antarctica on pack ice and in the open ocean,” Peter Simpson, the department’s biodiversity spokesman, said. Instead, it will be released on the northern edge of the region where young emperor penguins are known to live. Simpson was unsure how far the penguin would have to swim before getting home. It has been a rough ride for the unfortunate penguin. After being rescued by marine experts, it had to have an operation to remove sand from its stomach , after apparently mistaking it for snow which penguins eat to hydrate themselves in winter. The bird has been recovering at Wellington zoo after one of New Zealand’s leading surgeons, more used to performing the operation on humans, carried out an endoscopy , flushing its stomach clear of sand and driftwood. The penguin has been resting in a private, airconditioned room filled with large blocks of ice and dining on the finest fish slurry. The zoo has said that the penguin will not be taken home before it recovers. Zoo spokeswoman Kate Baker said: “The plan is to let him rest, feed him and x-ray him again on Friday or Saturday to see how much sand has passed.” New Zealand Animals Animal welfare Antarctica Animal behaviour Alexandra Topping guardian.co.uk
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