By Helen Regan, Masrur Jamaluddin, CNN

(CNN) — A rescue operation is underway to locate 20 missing hikers after a deadly volcanic eruption in Indonesia, local officials said Friday.

Three Singaporean nationals were killed when Mount Dukono, on the island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, erupted Friday morning, Indonesia’s national search and rescue agency (BASARNAS) said.

Photos show a huge column of smoke and ash rising into the air. Rescue teams can also be seen on the mountain and carrying at least one injured person on a stretcher through the forest, in photos from Indonesia’s rescue agency.

Indonesia has around 120 active volcanoes and sits along the “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped series of seismic fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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By Amarachi Orie, CNN

(CNN) — David Attenborough has now lived on Earth for a century.

In that stretch of time, he’s journeyed through forests and oceans, bonded with a family of gorillas, collected fossils, visited hidden tribes, overseen the first color TV broadcasts in Europe, narrated inspiring documentaries to hundreds of millions of viewers, collected numerous accolades, had dozens of species named after him and sounded the alarm on climate change.

Here are some key highlights from the renowned environmental broadcaster’s busy and extraordinary life, which he has spent with humans, animals and plants alike.

Prince, princess and a parrot

The TV personality developed his hallmark charismatic style of gentle humor, warmth and curiosity in his famous 1954 “Zoo Quest” series, which made him a recognizable figure. In 1958, Attenborough introduced a 3-year-old cockatoo, named Cocky, which he captured during his last “Zoo Quest” expedition, to child members of the British royal family – a young Prince Charles and Anne, Princess Royal.

Recounting the experience in an interview with the BBC ahead of Charles’ coronation in 2023, Attenborough said that the cockatoo was sitting on the prince’s hand and the animal had a “very powerful beak and a very powerful bite. And, although I was fairly confident about Cocky, it could actually have removed Charles’ little finger.”

Attenborough’s career at the BBC only catapulted from there, and he became controller of the BBC’s newly-launched second channel, BBC 2, in 1965. He launched a range of innovative productions, even introducing audiences to the unconventional comedy series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”

The broadcaster then served as director of television programming from 1968 to 1972, later resigning to make his own television programs.

First contact with Biami tribe

During an expedition in a remote part of New Guinea, aired in 1971, Attenborough and his BBC crew made contact with the previously unknown Biami tribe. Attenborough communicated with the tribe using gestures, looked at their personal ornaments and enquired about the pegs in the ritual punctures in the nose of one of the men.

Reflecting on that moment in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in 2016, Attenborough said, “It is a remarkable thing. Surprisingly, how eloquent you can be to somebody who doesn’t know a single word of your language, or indeed hasn’t met your kind before.”

Bonding with a ‘special little gorilla’

The personable presenter not only got on with people but managed to befriend a family of gorillas in the forests of Rwanda’s Virunga Mountains. While filming “Life on Earth” in 1978, a 3-year-old Gorilla named Pablo took a liking to Attenborough and playfully laid on him.

The scene captured hearts globally, later leading to “one of the greatest conservation success stories that I’ve witnessed,” Attenborough said in the April 2026 film “A Gorilla Story,” in which he tells the story of the same group of gorillas from the 1970s to the present day. He added that his connection with gorillas is “a connection that has stayed with me my whole life. And it all began with one special little gorilla.”

Chat with baby rhino

The naturalist’s keenness to engage with the animals he observes is also evident in his interaction with a blind baby rhino at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya in episode six of the 2013 B

By Jen Christensen, CNN

(CNN) — Health authorities across several countries are racing to trace and contain an outbreak of hantavirus after the World Health Organization said Thursday that five confirmed infections had been identified among people connected to the cruise ship MV Hondius.

The virus is typically associated with rodents, but it may have passed from human to human aboard the vessel, according to WHO. Since April 11, three people from the ship have died, while a handful of others are sick.

The outbreak was first reported to WHO on May 2 and remains a low risk to the general public, the organization says. Spanish authorities will conduct a full epidemiological investigation and disinfect the ship after it docks in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, where WHO believes the port has the right conditions for passengers to safely disembark.

Here are the details by the numbers so far.

How many people are potentially exposed?

• There were 147 people – 88 passengers and 59 crew members – aboard the MV Hondius, according to the World Health Organization.
• Those on board represent 23 nationalities, including 17 Americans.
• Authorities are completing additional contact tracing of 82 passengers and six crew members from an April 25 Airlink flight to Johannesburg from Saint Helena that a Dutch woman who had been on the ship took before she died.
• KLM said authorities in the Netherlands have also reached out to an undisclosed number of passengers on a second flight that the Dutch woman briefly boarded in Johannesburg. She left the 11:15 p.m. flight, KL592, before it took off because she was too sick to fly.
• Swiss authorities are carrying out additional contact tracing for people who came into contact with a passenger who left the MV Hondius in late April and is being treated at a Swiss hospital, according to Switzerland’s health ministry. The patient’s wife, who was also on the trip, has not reported symptoms and is isolating as a precaution, the Swiss health ministry said.
• In the US, the Department of State is in direct contact with passengers, and state departments of health are also involved. The Georgia Department of Public Health says it is monitoring two Georgia residents who returned home from the ship but have shown no signs of infection. An Arizona resident who was a passenger on the ship has not had symptoms and is being monitored by public health workers, according to the Arizona Department of Health. California, Texas, and Virginia are also monitoring passengers. None is exhibiting signs of the illness.
• Governments are also tracking at least 30 passengers who disembarked at the remote South Atlantic island of Saint Helena in late April, and others who went through other ports, leaving for a variety of countries, all before the outbreak was fully understood.

How many people have gotten sick?

• As of Thursday, there were five confirmed cases, and others are considered suspected cases, according to WHO.

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