In The News

• Mount Sinabung , on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, produces its first volcanic eruption since 1600, causing more than 18,000 residents to flee.
• Arrowheads excavated from Sibudu Cave in South Africa indicate the use of the bow and arrow up to 64,000 years ago.
• Following a general election, Danny Philip is elected Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands.
• A series of bombings across thirteen cities in Iraq kills more than fifty people.
• Al-Shabaab militants storm a hotel, killing dozens of people, including parliamentarians, amid heavy fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia.
• A plane crashes in Heilongjiang, north-east China, killing 42 people.
• Nine people, including the hostage-taker, are killed in a hostage crisis on board a bus in Manila, Philippines.
• Thirty-three miners are found alive but trapped, three weeks after a mine collapse near Copiapó, Chile.