An Indonesian volcano that returned to life after four centuries of inactivity threw an ash cloud thousands of metres into the air in its most most violent eruption yet.
Witnesses said lava, rock, ash and gas shot into the sky from the crater of 2,460-metre (8,000 feet) Mount Sinabung in northern Sumatra shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
The eruption lasted five minutes and was felt about eight kilometres (five miles) away.
"Its latest eruption was double the previous outburst and we recorded a tower of ash reaching 5,000 metres," government vulcanologist Agus Budianto said.
More than 20,000 people have fled their homes.
The death toll from flooding caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine has reached eight after two more bodies were found in Texas.
One body was identified as that of 51-year-old Jennifer Ring of Austin, missing since swift water swept her sports utility vehicle off a road.
Canterbury's 7.1-magnitude earthquake has triggered a record rise in heart attacks in the New Zealand city.
David Smyth, clinical director of cardiology at Christchurch Hospital, said the earthquake and aftershocks had prompted the surge.
"Patients say when the quake hit they got pains and every major aftershock has triggered more." The service usually dealt with two or three heart-attack patients a day, but now sees eight to 10 daily.
Dozens of people died in North Korea in floods and landslides caused by a typhoon which hit the country earlier this month, state media said.
Typhoon Kompasu hit the Korean peninsula on 2 September.
More than 8,300 homes and 230 public buildings were destroyed.
The Popemobile: because nothing says 'I?have faith in God' more than four inches of bulletproof glass.
Tiger Woods' mistress Devon James was fired by the Midnight Bunny Ranch brothel for going public about herself and Tiger. It's just not done.
She broke the house rule never to discuss the brothel's customers, particularly the ones voted
Customer of the Month.
President Obama insisted that the US economy is still showing improvement. And he said you can take that to the bank, if you can find any that are still open.
Anyone else getting fed up hearing about this big drill that they're using to rescue the trapped
miners in Chile?
It's boring.
Number of migrating birds trapped by the beams of the 'Tribute of Light' to 9/11
victims in Manhattan
What Jennifer Lopez will be paid by Fox television for acting as judge on season 10 of American Idol
Stolen from a pension fund by a Japanese clerk, who has fled the country. The sum equals about €26m
Satellite images show an ice island broke in two after repeatedly smashing into Joe Island, a small rocky outcrop in the Nares Strait between Greenland and Ellesmere Island. The larger piece now is about 152 km2 and the smaller piece is about 84 km2.
Lawyers for 11 Egyptian culture ministry officials charged with negligence over the theft of a $55m Van Gogh painting said their clients were scapegoats and the minister should shoulder responsibility. The officials are charged with negligence and shortcomings in their duties.
A clown has been charged after a teenage girl says he sexually assaulted her.
The 14-year-old alleges Alphonso Pittman, known as Fonzie the Clown, put his hands up her dress and pulled money out of his pocket asking her, "How much you worth?"
A gathering has asked people, particularly women, to courageously participate in elections to fulfill their responsibility towards the country. Candidate Fariba Charkhi said men had warned shopkeepers against allowing her to glue posters on shops in Karta-i-Naw.
Claude Chabrol, 80 , French film director of 'Madame Bovary' and 'Story of Women'
Carlton 'King' Coleman, 78, American R&B singer of 'Do the Mashed Potatoes'
Jim Greenwood, 81, Scottish rugby player who won 18 caps for his country and toured South Africa with 1955 Lions
Imran Farooq, 50, Pakistani politician, stabbed to death in a London street
Nduka Anyanwu, 30 Nigerian footballer who played in Germany, died on pitch
Tony Peluso, 60, guitarist with The Carpenters and record producer
Kevin McCarthy, 96, US actor Oscar nominated for role in 'Death of a Salesman'
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