AFP - Indonesia's rumbling Mount Batutara volcano has triggered the evacuation of about 15,000 people, an official said Friday.

AFP - Relentless rain triggered landslides and roof collapses across northern Pakistan, leaving at least 67 people dead, officials and reports said Wednesday.

AFP - An Indonesian "mud volcano" that has displaced 15,000 people briefly stopped spewing toxic sludge for the first time in more than nine months, baffling scientists, an official said Tuesday.

Reuters - New Zealand scientists kept watch on a volcanic crater on Monday after a natural dam burst, sending a torrent of muddy water and debris down the side of a peak used as a backdrop in the "The Lord of the Rings" films.

AFP - Indonesia has raised the alert level for Mount Talang on Sumatra island following increased smoke and tremors, a vulcanologist said Monday.

AFP - Scientists said Monday further massive mudflows from New Zealand's largest volcano were not expected, one day after it spewed some one million cubic metres of debris down its sides.

AP - A potentially lethal mix of mud, acidic water and rocks tore down the slope of New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu on Sunday, emergency officials said, but there was no immediate threat to life.

Reuters - Civil defense authorities in New Zealand have activated an emergency response plan after the volcanic crater lake at Mt. Ruapehu burst its banks sending a mudflow down the mountain, Australian media reported on Sunday.