Etna, one of Italy's (and the world's) most active volcanoes, has started erupting again. Saturday night the volcano erupted lava flows, although that is pretty much all the details in the article. The last series of major eruptions at Etna were last fall, but the volcano never tends to stay quiet for long. For those of you who want to take a peak, Etna has a nice live webcam.
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