Washington  - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Saturday.

Commander Lee Archambault guided the shuttle to a picture-perfect landing at 1914 GMT, ending the shuttle's 13-day mission to the International Space Station.

"Welcome home after a mission to bring the ISS to full power," the NASA ground crew said, adding a special welcome to astronaut Sandra Magnus, who returned to Earth after spending 129 days living aboard the ISS.

"Thank you very much. It's good to be back home," Archambault replied.

Washington  - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Saturday.

Commander Lee Archambault guided the shuttle to landing at 1914 GMT, ending the shuttle's 13-day mission to the International Space Station.

The landing had been delayed by around an hour and a half due to poor weather from an originally scheduled 1740 GMT touchdown, due to thick cloud cover.

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Miami  - Serena Williams played her first match in nearly a month to reach the third round of the Miami Masters 6-2, 6-3 over fellow-American Alexa Glatch on Saturday.

The world number one was back on court after completing her annual pout by skipping this month's other big event in Indian Wells, where she and her sister Venus claim racial discrimination due to crowd jeers nearly a decade ago.

The 2001 incident still burns brightly for the Williams pair, who have vowed never to return to the California desert despite losing hundreds thousands of dollars in various sanctions from the WTA.

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Washington - A Soyuz capsule with a joint US-Russian crew and a millionaire space tourist successfully docked Saturday with the International Space Station (ISS), US officials reported.

The US space agency NASA said the docking, coming two days after the Soyuz was launched from the Baikonur centre, went without a hitch and was completed at 1305 GMT, nine minutes earlier than scheduled.

The Soyuz brought Russian cosmonaut Gennadi Padalka and his US colleague Michael Barratt - who will stay on the ISS until next October - as well as US millionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi.