Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court have begun
preliminary
investigations in Nigeria and Honduras to establish whether there are cases there involving war crimes or crimes against humanity. The court's chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said the ICC had started inquiries into last year's coup in Honduras after receiving reports of possible human rights abuses. He
declined to
give details about the investigations in Nigeria.
Astronomers say they
detect
ed the first planet from outside our galaxy, the Milky Way. The Max Planck Institute in Germany said the Jupiter-size planet and its star were from a dwarf galaxy which was
absorb
ed into the Milky Way billions of years ago. Dr Robert Massey is with Britain's Royal Astronomical Society.
"The nice thing about this discovery is that it's the first hard evidence of a planet around a star which was actually once not in our galaxy.
Now there's every reason to believe that planets are really quite widespread throughout the Universe, not just in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, but also in all the thousands of millions of others there are.
But this is the first time we've got hard evidence of that."
A report says a dual epidemic of tuberculosis and HIV infection in Swaziland is threatening to
wipe out
entire generations. The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres found that life expectancy in Swaziland had halved over the past 20 years, from 60 to just 31. Swaziland already has the highest HIV/Aids