No lift home for lost penguin found in New Zealand

There will be no lift back to Antarctica for a young penguin who defied the odds by swimming all the way to New Zealand.

Wildlife officials said today that they will let "nature take its course" after the Emperor penguin ended up on picturesque Peka Peka Beach on North Island - 2,000 miles (3,200km) from Antarctic waters - in the country's first sighting of the bird in the wild in 44 years.