The smallest planet discovered outside our solar system has been found by Spanish scientists. ''I think we are very close, just a few years away, from detecting a planet like Earth,'' team leader Ignasi Ribas told a news conference on Wednesday. The rocky planet, with a radius about 50% greater than the Earth's, circles a small red dwarf star 30 light years away.
Use of cocaine by celebrities is encouraging a trade that destroys whole communities in Latin America and Africa, the United Nations' top anti-crime official said on Thursday. ''All these celebrity role models, turned into junkies, have in fact spent a lot of time in rehab lately, and their lives are a mess,'' said Antonio Maria Costa.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Saturday suspended dialogue with Basque guerrillas ETA after a bomb wrecked a car park at Madrid's international airport, breaking a nine-month truce. At least 19 people were injured in the attack and rescuers were still searching for two missing people.