Qantas chief executive officer Alan Joyce said the airline is suspending all flights of its six Airbus A380 jetliners after a mid-air engine problem on a flight from Singapore.

INDONESIA’S deadly volcano erupted yesterday with its biggest blast yet, shooting searing ash miles into the sky and forcing hasty evacuations of people from villages and emergency shelters.

INDONESIA’S Mount Merapi volcano erupted yesterday for the third time in a week, driving the number of refugees to almost 70,000, as the death toll from a tsunami thousands of kilometres to the west rose to 431, officials said.

Dozens of injured survivors of a tsunami off western Indonesia languished yesterday at a sorely strapped hospital alongside a newly orphaned two-month-old baby found in a storm drain, as the death toll from the disaster rose above 400.

The death toll from Indonesia’s tsunami and volcano eruption rose to more than 400 today as more bodies were recovered.

The death toll from a tsunami and a volcano rose to more than 300 today as more victims of Indonesia’s double disasters were found.

HELICOPTERS with emergency supplies finally landed yesterday on the remote Indonesian islands slammed by a tsunami that killed at least 272 people, while elsewhere in the archipelago the toll from a volcanic eruption rose to 30, including the mountain’s spiritual caretaker.

Helicopters with emergency supplies today finally landed on remote Indonesian islands struck by a tsunami that killed more than 300 people.

A volcanic eruption and a tsunami killed scores of people hundreds of miles apart in Indonesia.

INDONESIA’S Mount Merapi erupted three times yesterday, causing thousands to flee and claiming the life of a three-month-old baby girl as it emitted searing clouds and volcanic ash.

Indonesia’s most volatile volcano began erupting again today, sending plumes of hot ash and rocks high into the air.

An earthquake that killed more than 70 people in western Indonesia may have led to heightened activity at three volcanoes, experts warned today.

Large eruptions of searing hot gas and debris led to the hasty evacuation of thousands of villagers from Mount Merapi’s slopes today – a day after they got the OK to go home – as authorities raised the volcano’s alert level to its highest status again.

Indonesia’s Mount Merapi has spewed more gas and clouds of hot ash down its slopes, prompting 15,000 villagers to run for their lives, some jumping into rivers to escape the searing heat.

FRESH spurts of lava from a nearby volcano yesterday and deteriorating sanitary conditions added to the strain for hundreds of thousands of survivors of Indonesia’s devastating earthquake.

The death toll in a powerful earthquake which hit central Indonesia rose to more than 4,000 today as exhausted and grieving survivors dug through their crumpled homes searching for clothes, food and valuables.

Indonesia’s Mount Merapi belched out massive clouds of black smoke and sent lava flows shooting from its crater, but villagers ignored the dangers of an imminent eruption and returned to its slopes today to tend their animals and crops.

MORE than 100 villagers evacuated areas closest to Indonesia's rumbling Mount Merapi yesterday, bowing to days of pressure from officials who warned the volcano could erupt within the next two weeks.

Authorities are preparing for the possible evacuation of villagers living close to one of Indonesia’s deadliest volcanos after warning that the rumbling mountain could blow its top anytime.

Indonesia raised the alert status of a massive volcano on Java Island to the second-highest level, warning increased activity at its crater means it could erupt anytime, a volcanologist said today.

People living near an Indonesian volcano have been warned it could erupt.

Indonesia's most volatile volcano is becoming increasingly active and people have been warned to be ready for evacuation.