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

Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents ...

Greek prime minister announces £2.5m emergency evacuation fund as experts warn another major eruption could be on its way ...

Task Force Kanlaon head Raul Fernandez says they are worried about a powerful eruption following Thursday's brief volcanic activity ...

In 1950 the Santorini volcano experienced its last eruption, closing a cycle of volcanic activity that had begun in 1939.

An accumulation of weak to moderate earthquakes has been recorded around the Greek island of Santorini since 24 January. The ...

Dallas Mavericks shooting guard Klay Thompson went viral for all the right reasons with his vintage performance against the ...

Houston Rockets guard Dillon Brooks is renowned as one of the NBA’s best defenders and leading trash talkers. The latter didn ...

Renowned seismologist Costas Synolakis claimed that the earthquakes rattling Santorini may indicate the birth of a new ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...