Volcano eruption halts Jakarta flights

Volcano eruption halts Jakarta flights: "International airlines cancelled flights into Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Saturday after a volcano hundreds of kilometres 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 Mount Merapi in the last two weeks has climbed to 138, as a tiny hospital at the foot of the mountain struggles to cope with survivors, some with burns on up to 95 per cent of their bodies."