Around 13,000 people have been evacuated in north-east Philippines as the country’s most famous volcano, Mayon, continued to ooze lava.

Riding lorries and buffalo-drawn carriages, people living within the “permanent danger zone” or six-kilometre radius fled to shelters.

Known for its “perfect” conical shape, Mayon started spewing lava last week.

But evacuations only began over the weekend as volcanic activity intensified, setting of alerts.

More people could be evacuated if Mayon’s unrest intensifies in the coming days, said Teresito Bacolcol, the country’s chief volcanologist.

It is currently under the third highest warning in a five-tier system that forecasts the threat of a hazardous or explosive eruption. It is technically erupting, albeit at a slow pace, with lava oozing from the crater, scientists say.

Located in a farming peninsula called Bicol, Mayon is among the country’s most active volcanoes. It has grown restive in recent weeks with more frequent earthquakes and rocks falling from its crater.

“There’s the danger of a fast-moving current of volcanic gases and rocks from the crater,” Bacolcol told local media. “It will be difficult to outrun those currents.”

An eruption in 1814 killed 1,200 people and buried an entire town. But the perimeter was declared off limits, resulting in fewer casualties after recent eruptions in 2013 and 2018.

As Mayon glowed a fiery red, tourists have also begun to camp out in hilltops to witness the volcanic spectacle. Mayon, which Guinness describes as the world’s “most conical” volcano, is a tourist favourite.

Local officials have designated viewing points where thrill-seekers can marvel at its glowing crater.

The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has vowed to intervene urgently to resuscitate the erosion-damaged Akinima-Joinkarama Road linking several communities in Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria’s south-south.

Speaking at the erosion site, the NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, empathized with the people of Akinima and Joinkarama communities, as well as commuters using the road, for the pains they were going through.

Ogbuku, who was accompanied by the Executive Director of Projects, Mr Charles Ogunmola and other Directors of the Commission, assured that remediation work at the erosion site would commence immediately.

He observed that the damage on the road was enormous and would require short and long-term solutions.

Ogbuku said that it was important for him and the team of engineers to visit the site to have first-hand information for proper assessment and appropriate response.

He noted that to ensure a long-term solution, the commission will provide shore protection for the road and the communities.

Akinima Youth Laeder, Winner Ake, lamented that the Orashi River, which passes through the area, contributed to the gully erosion. He noted that the road has been taken over by criminals to harass and attack the road users that and appealed to development agencies to come to their rescue.

A resident of Akinima, Mr. Newton Odum bemoaned the level of environmental degradation, poverty and neglect in the area, despite playing host to many oil wells.

Scotland is now officially experiencing a heatwave after an extended period of hot weather, the Met Office confirmed on Monday.

A number of weather stations across the country have reached 25C or above for three days in a row.

Temperatures in Auchincruive, South Ayrshire, reached 29.8C on Saturday – making it the warmest day of the year in Scotland.

And the warm weather is set to continue for the next week.

Hot spots across the country include Eskdalemuir and Threave in Dumfries and Galloway, and Aviemore.

While people have enjoyed the rising temperatures, firefighters have warned of an increased risk of wildfires.

On Saturday, the fire service tackled a wildfire which broke out south of Inverness in the Daviot area, with local residents advised to keep windows and doors closed because of smoke.

The blaze was about 30 miles (48km) from Cannich – the site of another recent wildfire thought be the largest recorded in the UK.

The Met Office forecasts that next week the risk of thundery downpours will continue in some areas and temperatures are likely to remain above average.

It has extended the yellow warning for thunderstorms in western Scotland until Tuesday at 21:00.

Sepa has also warned of significant water scarcity in the Loch Maree area of the Highlands, and moderate scarcity in Ness in the Highlands and Esk in Dumfriesshire.

The mother of four children rescued after 40 days in the Amazon jungle was alive for four days after their plane crashed.

Magdalena Mucutuy told her children to leave and find help as she lay dying.

Speaking to reporters, the children’s father, Manuel Ranoque, said his eldest daughter told him their mother urged them to “get out” and save themselves.

The siblings, aged 13, nine, five, and one, were rescued and airlifted out of the jungle on Friday.

They were moved to a military hospital in the nation’s capital Bogota.

How 4 children survived 40 days in hostile Colombian jungle

“The one thing that [13-year-old Lesly] has cleared up for me is that, in fact, her mother was alive for four days,” Mr Ranoque told reporters outside the hospital.

“Before she died, their mum told them something like, ‘You guys get out of here. You guys are going to see the kind of man your dad is, and he’s going to show you the same kind of great love that I have shown you,” he said.

Details have been emerging about the children’s time in the jungle and their miraculous rescue – including the first things the children said when they were found.

Rescue worker Nicolás Ordóñez Gomes recalled the moment they discovered the children.

“The eldest daughter, Lesly, with the little one in her arms, ran towards me. Lesly said: ‘I’m hungry,'” he told public broadcast channel RTVC.

“One of the two boys was lying down. He got up and said to me: ‘My mum is dead.'” He said rescuers responded with “positive words, saying that we were friends, that we were sent by the family”.

Mr Ordóñez said the boy replied: “I want some bread and sausage.”

Soldiers of the Colombian Air Force give medical attention inside a plane to the surviving children of a Cessna 206 plane crash in the thick jungle, while they are transferred to Bogota by air in San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, June 9, 2023. Colombian Air Force/Handout via

The children are members of the Huitoto indigenous group and their grandfather told Colombian media that their knowledge of edible fruit and seeds had been key to their survival.

The eldest child, 13-year-old Lesly, has been credited with keeping her siblings alive.

Henry Guerrero, an indigenous man who was part of the team which finally located the children, said they managed to build a small shelter.

“They had made a small tent from a tarpaulin and placed a towel on the ground. They always stayed near the river and she [Lesly] carried a small soda bottle which she used to [fill with and] carry water.”

In footage released on Sunday of the children’s rescue, the four siblings appeared to be emaciated from the weeks they spent fending for themselves in the wilderness.

Mr Guerrero said that “the only thing they had in mind was to eat, eat”, when they were found. “They wanted to eat rice pudding, they wanted to eat bread,” he said.

Ms Mucutuy and her children had been travelling on the Cessna 206 aircraft from Araracuara, in Amazonas province, to San José del Guaviare, on 1 May.

Their plan was to join the children’s father, who had fled their home after receiving threats from a rebel group.

The plane crashed nose first in dense jungle in the south of Colombia after experiencing engine failure. It took search teams two weeks to locate the wreckage.

The bodies of the adults on board – the children’s mother and the two pilots – were found at the crash site by the army but it appeared that the children had wandered into the rainforest to find help.

The missing children became the focus of a huge rescue operation involving more than 100 soldiers, local indigenous people and sniffer dogs.

The search teams repeatedly spotted signs in the jungle, including footprints and fruit that had been bitten into, which led them to believe the children had survived the crash.

Helicopters flew over the area broadcasting a recorded message from their grandmother in the Huitoto language urging them to stay put to make it easier to locate them.

The children told their rescuers that they had heard the helicopters and the message.

They were finally located on Friday in a small clearing by a team of rescuers who had heard one of the siblings crying. “When we found them, it was really a great happiness,” Mr Guerrero said, describing the moment.

Their grandfather, Fidencio Valencia, said they were “very weakened, they have small wounds and bruises, they have illnesses that they contracted in the jungle, but overall they’re well, they’re in good hands”.

Markthall, or as the English translation would be the Market Hall, is a residential and office building with a market hall underneath, located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

It definitely is a sustainable combination of food, leisure, living and parking, fully integrated to celebrate and enhance the synergistic possibilities of the different functions.

The market is football pitch size indoor floor area full of fresh fish, meat and vegetable stalls and delicatessens. It has 100 fresh produce sellers, 15 food shops and 8 restaurants.

From fresh bread to delicious cheese, fish and poultry and even flowers and plants, you’ll find it all under one roof.

The market itself is a secure, covered square which emerges beneath an arc, conceived as an inversion of a typical market square and its surrounding buildings.

During the day it serves as central market hall, after hours the hall becomes an enormous, covered, well lit public space.

Designed by the architectural firm MVRDV, the grey nature stone building has an arch-wise structure, something like a horseshoe, with 11 floors and 4 underground floors.

The construction started in 2009 and was completed in October 2014, with overall cost of €178 million.

The building has a glass façade on both sides, which is made up of smaller glass windows, that are hung around a structure of steel cables (26 vertical and 22 horizontal), 34 meters (112 feet) high and 42 meters (138 feet) wide which makes it the largest glass-window cable structure in Europe.

Arno Coenen was the artist who did his artwork on the interior of the building, which is named Hoorns des Overvloeds, or the English translation Horn of Plenty.

As it is a market, it comes as no surprise that the artwork is actually enlarged fruits, vegetables, seeds, fish, flowers and insects. Certainly, this may look like an ordinary building to some people, but most of all it deserves to have the epithet The Sistine Chapel of Rotterdam.