See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Multiple earthquakes are rattling Santorini, a volcanic island in Greece, prompting authorities to dispatch rescuers with ...

Local authorities have heightened their alert as moderate to heavy rains coupled with ash deposited along the slopes of the ...

UK scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough in their efforts to decipher 2000-year-old papyrus scrolls that were ...

The inside of a charred scroll has been deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried during a huge ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed its latest eruption on Monday, sending fountains of lava shooting more than 250 feet in the ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...

The Greek island's mayor has warned that seismic activity could continue for weeks, after earthquakes up to a magnitude of ...

The island has been experiencing near-constant tremors since late January, with thousands of earthquakes recorded.

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spearheads Volcano Awareness Month each January on the Island of Hawaii. This year, in ...

Thousands of locals flee the picturesque island as experts say rolling tremors ‘not linked to volcanic activity’.

BACOLOD CITY — The Commission on Elections in the Negros Island Region will make adjustments to its contingency plans for the ...