Vocano

• Indonesia's volcano erupts 24 times in a day

  Mount Sinabung, a volcano in Indonesia's North Sumatra province, erupted 24 times on Friday.

• Volcanic ash gives Europe airports new nightmares

  As the European Union sought to streamline its response to contamination of its airspace, civil aviation authorities in Scotland and Ireland closed some airports for the second successive day on Wednesday because of volcanic ash drifting from Iceland. Transport ministers from the European Union agreed on Tuesday to speed up plans to unify control o...