Krakatoa — The Last Days (BBC, €22.99) brings you to the front line of what was one of the 19th century’s worst disasters, a volcanic eruption which affected the world’s climate.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche yesterday criticised Fine Gael councillors who are using taxpayers’ money to go to a party conference, accusing them of “fraud”.

A rumour that a remnant of the legendary Krakatau volcano was erupting sent thousands of residents of Indonesia’s tsunami-hit Sumatra island fleeing in panic today.

Indonesian scientists today were closely monitoring three volcanoes that have rumbled into life – activity they link to last December’s monster earthquake off the coast of Sumatra Island and the countless other powerful tremors that followed.

THE sea and wreckage of coastal towns around the Indian Ocean yielded up tens of thousands of bodies yesterday pushing the toll from Sunday's tsunami above 60,000.

The death toll from epic tidal waves that rocked 11 countries rose to 40,000 people today after Sri Lanka and Indonesia significantly increased their confirmed deaths.

The Indonesian megaquake may be history’s costliest natural disaster, the United Nations said.

Aid agencies all over the world prepared today for what the United Nations said would be the biggest relief effort in history, following the Asian earthquake disaster that killed thousands upon thousands.

YOU would need a heart of stone not to be moved by the Armagh celebrations in Croke Park yesterday, as the oh-so-precious new green sward changed colour under the swarming orange hordes that broke down from the towering stands, sweeping aside every effort to hold them back.