Iceland This article is more than 1 month oldIceland downgrades volcano threat level as activity appears to endThis article is more than 1 month oldOfficials say no visible movement at site near Grindavík but it is possible lava may still be flowing underneath Authorities in Iceland have downgraded the threat level from the volcano that erupted earlier this week, as officials said they could no longer observe volcanic activity at the site of the eruption.

RapInterviewInsane Clown Posse: And God created controversyJon RonsonAmerica's nastiest rappers in shocking revelation – they've been evangelical Christians all alongNews: Insane Clown Posse fans classified as a gang in FBI report Milwaukee. A bad and quite eerie part of town. This happens to be the very block where the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 people in the 1980s. Now, from all around, thousands of young men and women, wearing scary clown face paint, are descending upon a disused indoor swimming pool that has been transformed into a music venue.

Animals Kobe the husky saves Philadelphia neighbourhood from potentially explosive gas leak – video Kobe the husky has saved his Philadelphia neighbourhood after detecting a gas leak. In a video posted to social media, Kobe’s owner, Chanell Bell, recounts how she noticed her four-year-old dog repeatedly digging in a hole that was in the concrete of her front yard. Bell said she thought the action was unlike him and decided to investigate further because there had been a gas leak in her home in the previous weeks.

The ObserverScienceScience isn't always about the big questions. Marc Abrahams spends his time studying research that seeks the answers to more unlikely problems – little conundrums that others dare not tackleWhy do Bedouins wear black in the desert?The question so intrigued four scientists – all non-Bedouins – that they ran an experiment. Their study, called Why Do Bedouins Wear Black Robes in Hot Deserts?, was published in the journal Nature in 1980.

The joy of sixFriendliesThe Joy of Six: club v country friendliesFrom Barcelona hosting Brazil to Arsenal taking on France, via England's trip to Aylesbury and the great brawl of China1) Barcelona 2-2 Brazil, 28 April 1999Fantasy match-ups are usually reserved for the PlayStation or the playground. Arguments over the greatest sides of all time will persist for ever, because there is no definitive way of settling them, beyond forcefully pointing out that obviously Lionel Messi is better than Ian Ure.