Both girls get up at 6 a.m. to get ready for school.

Barack and Michelle Obama put their girls off-limits to the news media after they moved to the White House, saying they wanted to keep their daughters' lives as normal as possible. But small details about the private lives of the young do dribble out. Often they come from a surprising source: Mom and Dad.

It was President Barack Obama who mentioned, perhaps to his daughter's utter embarrassment, that Malia had been fitted with braces.

Mount Sinabung, in the north of the island of Sumatra, began erupting around midnight after rumbling for several days, prompting some villagers to panic before the mass evacuation got under way.

Indonesia is on the so-called Pacific Rim of Fire, an arc of volcanoes and geological fault lines triggering frequent earthquakes around the Pacific Basin. The eruption triggered the highest red volcano alert.

Two people died, one from breathing problems and the other from a heart attack, and two suffered injuries in road accidents as trucks, ambulances and buses were mobilized in the rescue operation.

TORONTO - An expedition surveying the wreck of the Titanic is showing off some crisp images of the doomed ocean liner.

It has used a pair of robots to take thousands of photographs and hours of video of the wreck, which lies roughly four kilometres (2.5 miles) below the surface.

The hi-resolution images include shots of the ship's bow, clearly showing the railing and anchors.

An expedition spokesman says they're the first images of the ship taken in over five years.

The 14-inch-long baby alligator found hiding under a car in New York, Sunday is held by Michael Pastore at Animal Care & Control of New York City.

The headline-grabbing alligator captured in Queens, New York wasn't the only cold-blooded critter snatched off the city's streets over the weekend.

The young male alligator - not yet named - got a little rest Monday at a Brooklyn animal shelter, where he was joined by two other reptiles, all captured within 24 hours.

The first was a lizard known as an Argentine tegu; the other, "a large - very large - iguana," said Michael Pastore, the field operations director of Animal Care & Control of New York City.