An Indonesian volcano today forced US President Barack Obama to cut short his visit to the country, and some international airlines were again cancelling flights amid concerns about air safety.

US president Barack Obama told the Muslim nation that was his boyhood home that American relations with the Islamic world were still frayed, but urged all sides to look beyond “suspicion and mistrust” to forge common ground against terrorism.

THE death toll from two weeks of eruptions from Indonesia’s most volatile volcano has passed 150.

The death toll from two weeks of eruptions from Indonesia's most volatile volcano passed 150 today.

People have abandoned their homes in a bustling city of 400,000 at the foot of Indonesia’s rumbling volcano today, cramming onto trains, buses and rented vehicles as authorities warned Mount Merapi could erupt again at any time.

Three Malaysian air force planes are going to Indonesia to pick up hundreds of citizens stranded by the eruption of Mount Merapi.

International airlines cancelled flights into Indonesia’s capital today after a volcano hundreds of miles to the west unleashed its most powerful eruption in a century, incinerating villagers as they fled a searing gas cloud.

The number of people killed by an Indonesian volcano that burst back to life two weeks ago has climbed to 138, hospital officials said today.

INDONESIA’S most active volcano killed 77 people yesterday in its biggest eruption in over a century, incinerating homes, grounding flights and driving thousands into shelters.

Blistering gas from Indonesia’s most volatile volcano spewed farther than expected today, incinerating houses at the edge of the danger zone, triggering chaotic evacuations and pushing the death toll in more than a week to nearly 100.

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.

More people were evacuated from around Indonesia’s Mount Merapi today after the volcano had its biggest eruption yet.

Indonesia’s most volatile volcano – one of 22 being closely watched following an increase in activity – unleashed its most powerful eruption in a deadly week today, spewing searing clouds of gas and debris thousands of feet into the air.

A DEADLY volcano in Indonesia spewed another searing cloud of ash down its slopes yesterday, prompting panic and chaos among thousands of villagers who had taken advantage of a lull in activity to rush home and check on their livestock.

A deadly volcano in Indonesia started spewing another searing cloud of ash down its slopes today after a lull in activity.

One hundred and thirty-five people thought to have been missing following a tsunami in Indonesia have been found alive.

Indonesia’s military forced villagers off the slopes of the country’s most volatile volcano today as it unleashed a new powerful explosion that claimed another victim and temporarily shut down an airport.

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 the quake-fed tsunami that hit the remote western islands and the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Merapi reached 377.

An orphaned baby was found alive today three days after the Indonesian earthquake that has killed more than 350 people.

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.

The death toll from an earthquake and killer tsunami in Indonesia climbed to 272 today as helicopters with rescuers and emergency supplies finally reached the remote islands.

The death toll from an Indonesian tsunami has climbed to 154 with more than 400 people still missing, an official said today, as rescuers tried to help its victims and those affected by an erupting volcano.

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.

INDONESIA warned yesterday that its most volatile volcano could erupt at any time and started evacuating some of the thousands of villagers living on the mountain’s slope.

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.

A large eruption of searing hot gas and volcanic debris sent more than 1,000 villagers fleeing from the slopes of Mount Merapi today, a day after Indonesian government scientists lowered the alert level at the mountain.

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.

Indonesian officials today evacuated 11,000 villagers from around Mount Merapi volcano, as lava and superheated clouds of gas poured repeatedly down its upper slopes.

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.

Indonesian earthquake survivors salvaged bricks and planks from the remains of their flattened homes today as they began the arduous process of rebuilding, but international relief agencies warned that the emergency phase was far from over.

Rescuers said hopes of finding more survivors from a devastating earthquake that killed more than 5,400 people were waning today, as aid workers from around the world arrived in the disaster zone in central Indonesia.

A trickle of aid began reaching survivors of the Indonesian earthquake that killed more than 5,400 over the weekend, but desperate villagers said today the meagre deliveries were not enough.

The first UN flight arrived today in Indonesia’s earthquake zone carrying water, tents, stoves and cooking sets, as the death toll from the disaster climbed to nearly 5,000.

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.

Thousands of exhausted and grieving survivors dug through their crumpled homes today searching for clothes, food and valuables after a powerful earthquake hit central Indonesia, killing more than 3,700.

A powerful earthquake flattened buildings in central Indonesia early today, killing at least 2,900 people and injuring thousands more in the country’s worst disaster since the 2004 tsunami.

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.