The Milky Way is home to far more planets than previously thought, boosting the odds that at least one of them may harbour life, according to a study released Wednesday.Not long ago, astronomers counted the number of "exoplanets" detected outside our own solar system…

Three dismembered bodies were found Tuesday in different parts of the Mexican resort town of Acapulco in what appears to be continuing drug cartel violence, the Guerrero state government said.Two of the bodies were found in a burning car and on the pavement of…

Gunmen killed at least 51 people in the latest ethnic clashes in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state, the region's governor said Tuesday."The whole night (Monday) they burned the town... 51 are confirmed dead and now we have 22 (injured) evacuated to Juba," said Jonglei…

The ocean's deepest volcanic vents, kilometres below the surface, are teeming with life forms never before seen that thrive near super-hot underwater geysers, according to a new study.Eyeless shrimps and white-tentacled anemones were photographed bunched around cracks in the ocean floor spewing mineral-rich water…

New ethnic clashes in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state have killed 57 people, the government of the world's newest nation said late Thursday.Information Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said that in the latest clash "57 people got killed, and most of them are women and…

Ethnic and religious violence in Nigeria claimed 16 more victims Tuesday, with gunmen killing eight in the north and a mob torching an Islamic school in the south, as a fuel strike added to the deadly tension.Amid the sectarian and social turmoil, Nobel literature…

Members of North Korea's powerful military have held a rally to pledge loyalty to the country's new leader Kim Jong-Un, vowing to become "rifles and bombs" to protect him, official media said Tuesday.Service members promised to "become rifles and bombs to serve as Kim…

The home of a Mapuche Indian leader in Chile was destroyed in a suspicious blaze Sunday in an area ravaged by forest fires, which officials say may have been caused by radical indigenous activists.Police said hooded assailants also torched the home of a retired…

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera invoked anti-terror legislation Thursday after at least six firefighters died in a wildfire he believes was started deliberately.An unusually hot and dry start to the Chilean summer has seen more than 50 wildfires, fanned by high winds, burn down scores…

International scientists said on Tuesday they had found signs of the Higgs boson, an elementary sub-atomic particle believed to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe after the Big Bang.Peter Higgs, the 82-year-old British theoretical physicist who first proposed the…