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Google Doodle celebrated the anniversary of the huge success achieved by Sudanese composer and oud player, Asma Hamza, who was known as the oud princess. On July 19, 1997, Asma was the first Sudanese female composer to win the national music competition Laylat Al-Qadr Al-Kubra, which was a turning point in her career and helped her gain recognition in a male-dominated field in her country. Her first popular work was composing the music of the “Al Zaman Al Tayb” written by Sudanese poet Saifeddine el-Desouki, and sang by Sudanese singer Sumaya Hassan in 1983.

An ongoing eruption of a remote volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands produced an ash cloud so large Tuesday that warnings were sent to pilots about potentially dangerous conditions. An ash cloud with an initial height of around 5.5 miles (8.9 kilometers) was reported following the morning eruption of Shishaldin Volcano. But by early afternoon, ash emissions were below 1.9 miles (3 kilometers), and the aviation alert was downgraded, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory.

New evacuations were ordered Wednesday as wildfires raged near the Greek Capital after a second heat wave hit the Mediterranean country from the west following days of record-high temperatures that baked southern Europe. In a round-the-clock battle to preserve forests, industrial facilities, and vacation homes, evacuations continued for a third day along a highway connecting Athens to the southern city of Corinth. Water-dropping planes and helicopters resumed operation at first light.

WILTON MANORS, Fla. — When Alicia Griggs steps outside her suburban Fort Lauderdale home, Florida's latest invasive species comes a-hoppin' down the street: lionhead rabbits.

A Florida neighborhood is having to deal with a growing group of domestic rabbits on its streets after a breeder illegally let hers loose.