Nobody hurt by volcano eruption

Giant rivers of lava tumbled slowly but relentlessly toward the sea on Monday after a volcano erupted on the Cumbre Viega on a Spanish island off northwest Africa, with prompt evacuations helping to avoid casualties. Scientists had been monitoring the area on the island of Palma, in the volcanic Canary Islands, in recent days amid thousands of mostly small earthquakes, and authorities quickly evacuated around 5,500 people. The lava destroyed more than 100 homes on the hillsides.