The phoenix rose from its ashes.

The fire reduced the house to ashes.

Ash was propelled to a height of .

The UN arose from the ashes of a war that the League of Nations was unable to avert.

Locals will have to learn to live with clouds of ash for the foreseeable future.

The southern Italian island of Sicily has been covered with a vast plume of smoke and ash.

The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and Savai'i, one of the biggest islands in Polynesia.

The European Union an empire built through diplomacy and consensus emerged out of the ashes.

Old hands know that global trade deals often rise out of the ashes of failed talks.

In a desert plain in Tanzania, in the shadow of the volcano Ol Donyo Lengai, there's a dune made of volcanic ash.

Ash Apart from possibly affecting the climate, volcanic clouds from explosive eruptions also pose a serious hazard to aviation safety.

In France and Germany, a new far left composed of Trotskyites, communists, and anarchists is rising from the ashes to become a political force again.

And after its defeat in World War II, Japan rose from the ashes to become Asia s first global economic powerhouse.

In 1783, a volcano in Iceland spewed so much ash into the atmosphere that the entire northern hemisphere was cooled for almost three years.

Images on social media showed thin layers of ash coating car windshields in neighborhoods of Mexico City such as Xochimilco.

Located 50km (31 miles) south of capital Quito, Cotopaxi is one of Ecuador's most active volcanoes with several known eruptions.

The International Civil Aviation Authority has announced that it will convene a group of experts to help it provide guidance for the industry to decide what level of ash in the atmosphere makes it unsafe to fly.

Even if the US and its allies defeat the Islamic State over the coming decade, we should be prepared for a similar Sunni extremist group to rise from the ashes.

Out of the ashes of war a new kind of Europe arose, as did a new kind of Japan, which even had a pacifist constitution (written by idealistic Americans, but gratefully accepted by most Japanese).

Begin was the best proof that Israel s critics needed that the Zionist revolution, although it created a state out of the ashes of the Holocaust, had failed to eradicate the collective self image of the Jew and the Israeli as victim.

The National Center for Disaster Prevention warned Mexicans on Saturday to stay away from the volcano after activity picked up in the crater and it registered 183 emissions of gas and ash over 24 hours.

As Deng Xiaoping began to encourage individual incentives over the next several decades embodied in such slogans as, To Get Rich Is Glorious I watched with wonder and amazement as China s private economy began to rise from the ashes of Mao s revolution.

He was far less shaped by religious and biblical teachings than all of them, and the narrative of Jewish history and of Israel s heroic emergence out of the ashes of the Holocaust is not the primordial sentiment in his attitude toward the Arab Israeli conflict.

I gaze at the ashen prints left by the fire and try to picture the scene in my mind the group of invaders hiding in the dark in an embankment piled with garbage, listening to the same blasts as me, breathing the same tear gas, unable to escape or protect themselves.

Perhaps the most popular resurrection theme, outside of specifically religious ones, is the one about the phoenix, the ancient story of the phoenix, who, every 500 years, resurrects itself from its own ashes to go on to live a life that is even more beautiful than it was before. Richard, thanks very much.