Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is facing up to four years in jail after admitting cocaine possession and driving under the influence.

FORMER world heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson has been charged with drug possession and driving under the influence of drugs in the US, and the Maricopa County prosecutor in Arizona says he wants to send him to prison.

After circling the Earth for 13 days, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery powered up their spacecraft early today and awaited word from Mission Control to fire their braking rockets and head for home.

A SPACEWALKING astronaut gently pulled two potentially dangerous strips of protruding filler from Discovery’s tile belly with his gloved hand yesterday, successfully completing an unprecedented emergency repair.

Employing the kind of NASA ingenuity used to avert disaster on the Apollo 13 mission, an astronaut prepared for an emergency repair job on Discovery’s exterior today with forceps, scissors and a hacksaw fashioned out of a blade and duct tape.

DISCOVERY astronauts are today set to perform a high-stakes task that has never before been attempted: sending a spacewalker beneath the craft to repair material sticking out from the ship’s thermal tile belly.

The Discovery space shuttle was being prepared for blast-off today, with NASA managers confident that last minute hitches would not delay tomorrow’s launch.

A Welsh rugby club official and 19 players tonight received lengthy suspensions after admitting charges arising from doping control tests.

Two spacewalking astronauts have finished a critical wiring job on the international space station.