Volcano in eastern Congo spews lava
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A volcano erupted late Monday near the city of Goma in eastern Congo, spewing lava in an area devastated by a major eruption four years ago.
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Herds of elephants are trampling crops and polluting water sources in eastern Republic of Congo, threatening to force thousands of villagers out of their homes, the forestry minister said on Friday.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - Government troops in eastern Congo battled Rwandan militiamen in growing violence between the former allies from the country's bloody 1998-2002 war, UN and Congo army officials said Monday.
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Thousands of Indonesians have been evacuated around Mount Gamkonora in the east of the country after the volcano started sending out huge columns of ash and smoke, officials said on Tuesday.
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Police in Congo&#039;s capital fired tear gas Tuesday to break up stone-throwing demonstrators who were alleging electoral irregularities ahead of the country&#039;s first presidential vote in four decades.
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Lava has begun to ooze out of  Washington state's Mount St. Helens, building up the lava crust  in the volcano's crater, government scientists said on  Wednesday.
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GOMA, Congo  - Intense fighting between government and militia forces in eastern Congo has led to a surge in rape by fighters from all sides, women and doctors say.
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A volcano in southern Chile erupted on Tuesday, spewing lava and ash, and forcing the evacuation of about 150 people, officials said.
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A meteorite that struck a remote part of Peru made a crater that is emitting noxious odours and making villagers ill, according to local press reports.
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Lava has begun to ooze out of Washington state's Mount St. Helens, building up the lava crust in the volcano's crater, government scientists said on Wednesday.
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By Natasha Derrick, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Jun. 15--From a distance, a satellite picture of Madagascar appears to be a spindly octopus with long, rusty red tendrils. Or perhaps it is the sprawling flow of lava from an erupting volcano.
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In normal times, Luis Egas would have risen before dawn to tend livestock or fields of potatoes and onions. But as the sun rose Saturday, all he could do was survey his village, laid waste by a volcanic eruption that spewed incandescent rock, showers of ash,and rivers of molten lava.
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Two earthquakes in Rwanda and neighboring Congo have killed at least 39 people, and injured 380
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VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Magma continued to push into Mount St. Helens, where it was building a lava dome in the volcano crater, scientists said Monday.
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KOLWEZI, Congo  - Amid rusted hulks of abandoned plants and huge mine craters, Congo's former top copper town Kolwezi is showing signs of a reawakening.
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BUKAVU, Congo  - About 100,000 civilians in eastern Congo have fled a week of fighting between renegade soldiers and army loyalists, hiding deep into the forest where humanitarian workers cannot reach them, United Nations officials said Sunday.
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The Mayon volcano erupted Friday, a day after ejecting ash amid swarms of earthquakes, the Philippines&#039; chief volcanologist said.