Italy’s Catania airport resumed full operations a day after an ash cloud from Mount Etna’s latest eruption in eastern Sicily forced it to shut down. Before dawn on Christmas Day, fiery red flaming lava shooting out from the volcano could be seen against the darkness of the night sky. Mount Etna spews lava (Orietta Scardino/AP)The series of quakes appeared to be diminishing on Tuesday. The volcano’s seismological observatory says a new fissure has opened on a stretch of uninhabited slope near Mount Etna’s south east crater. A smoke column comes out of Mount Etna (Salvatore Allegra/AP)Volcanic ash was also seen on some cars and streets near the mountain.

Source: Irish Examiner December 25, 2018 15:33 UTC