A photographer has accused Kevin Federline's bodyguard of pushing her camera into her nose and face, leaving her "in pain for three or four days".

Even though Tropical Storm Ernesto and a lightning strike postponed the lift off of the space shuttle, the delay of a week may give NASA managers good weather for launching Atlantis, officials said today.

The delivery of a German astronaut to the international space station and the scheduled spacewalk of a British astronaut were put in doubt today as a cloudy weather forecast may delay this weekend’s launch of the space shuttle Discovery.