Icelandic Volcano Erupts, Engulfing Europe, Affecting World.

The Eyjafjallajoekull volcano erupted on 14th April, spewing out huge amounts of ash out to the sky, engulfing across Europe covering as far as Russia, Spain, Italy and Ukraine.

This affects sky travelling to and from Europe, stranding lots and lots of passengers of cancelled flights in airports.

The flights were cancelled because the ash is a combination of sand, rocks and glass, which obviously is dangerous to planes that tries to brave the sky.

Not only stranding passengers at airports and causing logistics problems for food and accomodation, this natural disaster also cause an overwhelming demand and thus clogging up sea and land travelling, delaying an already packed football fixture schedule on a world cup year. World leaders are also unable to attend the Polish President's and the other victims' funeral, less business from tourism at other countries.

There's also been talk that this eruption could possibly cause another economic crisis, especially in Europe. Reportedly, Airlines are losing $200 million per day because of this(17000 out of 22000 flights cancelled!). And with estimations that the ash clouds will not shift till late next week, meaning the air-travel ban wouldn't be lifted until then in some areas, there's fear that many Airlines will require government bailouts.

There are some incredible pictures related to this story, check it out.
Eyjafjallajoekull Eruption Pictures: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8627244.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8625813.stm