Amazing pictures show apocalyptic scene as wall of black fog covers the country in darkness

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It is well known that volcanic eruptions produce strong lightning. Less well known is why? Ordinary lightning in thunderstorms is not fully understood; volcanic lightning is even more of a mystery.

To investigate, a team of researchers from New Mexico Tech has traveled to Iceland to monitor the Eyjafjallajokull volcano--and they have found it crackling with electricity.

"On the evening of April 16th, there were some small eruptions producing ash clouds up to about 6-7 km, with lightning," says photographer Harald Edens.

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The global financial crisis, it is now clear, was caused not just by the bankers' colossal mismanagement. No, it was due also to the new financial complexity offering up the opportunity for widespread, systemic fraud.

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General Jones declined to speak about the memorandum. But he said: ''On Iran, we are doing what we said we were going to do. The fact that we don't announce publicly our entire strategy for the world to see doesn't mean we don't have a strategy that anticipates the full range of contingencies - we do.''

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Aa much of Europe's airspace has been shut down and the towering fountain of ash from an Icelandic volcano shows no signs of letting up, questions are being raised about the long-term impact on a continent trying to recover from recession.

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