Photograph of smoke and steam hanging over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier by Jon Gustafsson/AP

Travelers to and from Europe were stranded as ash from an Icelandic volcano continued to cause problems in Europe's airspace. BBC News reports, "Flights across much of Europe will be severely disrupted well into Saturday because of drifting ash ejected from a volcano in Iceland, officials said. Much of the airspace across northern and western Europe has been closed, and air control officials said some 17,000 flights would be cancelled on Friday." Now it's questionable whether President Obama and other world leaders can fly to the funeral of Polish president Lech Kaczynski.

The Post found a "team of beautiful Swedish figure skaters" languishing at Newark. One said, "I'm quite upset that I can't get home .We've been away for two weeks. We don't have enough money to stay in New York," while another said, "It's very boring to be turning 21 in an airport. I still plan to celebrate. I'll just have to put the vodka on ice for now. I might start having to dance on these suitcases."

And Apple's iPad might be getting a boost: Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg "is running the Norwegian government via his new iPad, according to press secretary Sindre Fossum."