In brief: Campbell charged with assault

Naomi Campbell (pictured), the supermodel, could soon be trading her couture finery for prison fatigues having been formally charged today with assaulting a police officer, a crime that carries a six-month jail sentence. The 38-year-old, who is based in New York, is due to appear at Uxbridge Magistrates Court, west London, next month charged with five offences over an incident that took place last at the new Heathrow Terminal 5.... JK Rowling has written a short prequel to her Harry Potter books; the 800-word tale will not be published but will go under the hammer at a charity auction in London next month... Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie have finally received official approval from a Malawi court to keep a young boy from the country, two-year-old David Banda, who they adopted over a year ago; the adoption attracted criticism because the boy's father was still alive... Critics of Barack Obama have seized on his claim that his great-uncle helped to liberate the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, pointing out that his relative could only have done so if he'd been a member of Stalin's Red Army. His relative did, in fact, liberate another camp, Buchenwald...Artist Beryl Cook, known for her colourful and comic paintings of larger-than-life ladies, has died at the age of 81...George Monibot, the environmental campaigner and a critic of the Iraq war, tried to make a citizens’ arrest on the former U.S ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, yesterday at Hay Literary Festival. He believes he is guilty of war crimes, but it was all in vain as he was thwarted by the Bolton’s bodyguards... Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he received (only) a speeding ticket for driving at 186mph on a public road, a claim that has prompted the road safety charity Break to demand he be sacked by the BBC... Woolworths has scrapped plans to release a range of souvenirs to mark the 'engagement' of Prince William and Kate Middleton; the store was caught out two years ago after it revealed designs for mugs, thimbles, computer mouse mats and even pick-and-mix sweets - only for the couple to break up weeks later... ·