A volcano in western Indonesia erupted on Thursday, unleashing a column of dark volcanic material high into the air weeks after villagers were returning home from an earlier eruption, officials said.

The explosion at Mount Sinabung, located in North Sumatra province, shot black ash 3 kilometers (nearly 2 miles) into the air, but there were no reports of

A pilot trying to fight one of several raging Australian wildfires died when his plane crashed Thursday, in the second fatality resulting from the fires that have ripped through the nation's most populous state over the past week.

The 43-year-old man was the only person on board and