A tourist boat with 280 people on board ran aground off the coast an island near Athens today.

Two convicted terrorists who had been freed in an amnesty carried out the suicide bombings at United Nations and government buildings that killed 37 people, an Algerian security official said.

A cargo ship collided with a tanker and sank off an island near the Greek capital, leaving an unknown number of seamen missing, authorities said today.

A TEAM of European and American astronomers said over the weekend that they had for the first time directly observed a planet outside of our solar system.

New images taken of an object five times the mass of Jupiter confirm that it is a giant planet closely orbiting a distant star, an international team of astronomers has reported.