World news: Tsunami death toll rises to 400 as more bodies found

The death toll from Indonesia's tsunami and volcano eruption rose to more than 400 today as more bodies were recovered.

Fisherman Joni Sageru said he was jolted awake by the powerful earthquake and ran with his screaming neighbours to high ground, then watched as the sea first receded, then came roaring back "like a big wall" that swept away their entire village.

"Suddenly trees, houses and all things in the village were sucked into the sea and nothing was left," he said in one of the first survivor accounts of the tsunami that slammed into islands off western Indonesia.

The tsunami death toll rose to 393 but hundreds of people were still missing. Harmensyah, head of the West Sumatra provincial disaster management centre, said rescue teams "believe many, many of the bodies were swept to sea".

Along with the 33 people killed by the volcano that erupted on Tuesday more than 800 miles to the east in central Java, the number of dead has now reached 426.

After a lull that allowed mourners to hold a mass burial for victims, Mount Merapi started rumbling again yesterday with three small eruptions and two others early today.

Quaid: 'They're out to get me'

Actor Randy Quaid said today a group of Hollywood bankers, lawyers and executives were out to ruin him as he continued to seek refugee status in Canada following his arrest on US warrants. Quaid made the comments after he attended an immigration hearing in Vancouver.

Oil rig cement tests 'skipped'

Contractor Halliburton admitted today that it skipped a crucial test on the final formulation of cement used to seal the BP oil well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico.

The company, which was BP's cementing contractor, said that BP at the last minute increased the amount of a critical ingredient in the cement mix.

The cement's failure to prevent oil and gas from entering the Deepwater Horizon well has been identified as one of the causes of the April 20 disaster.

Ash clouds divert flights

Two volcanoes erupted on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, tossing massive ash clouds miles into the air, forcing flights to divert and blanketing one town with thick, heavy ash. The Klyuchevskaya Sopka exploded yesterday along with the Shiveluch volcano 45 miles away.

Weapons 'heading for Gaza'

Israel says military-grade armaments seized at a shipping terminal in Nigeria came from Iran and were bound for the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Military officials would not provide evidence to support their claims, citing "security concerns".

Facebook mum shakes baby to death

Alexandra Tobias pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was remanded in custody.

United States: A Florida mother pleaded guilty to shaking her baby to death after the boy's crying interrupted her game on Facebook.China: Scientists say that they have found the first complete skeleton of a dinosaur that is an ancestor to the sauropod which, at 124ft long, is the largest creature ever to have walked the planet.