Thailand plans to allow vaccinated foreigners to visit the southern resort island of Phuket without quarantining on arrival in a step toward reviving the country’s big but battered tourism industry.

The eruption of a long-dormant volcano in southwestern Iceland has drawn crowds of visitors eager to get close to the lava flows.

The U.S. must seriously consider the idea of tinkering with the atmosphere to cool a warming Earth and accelerate research into how and whether humanity should hack the planet, the National Academy of Sciences said Thursday.

President Joe Biden opened his first formal news conference by doubling his original goal on COVID-19 vaccines by pledging that the nation will administer 200 million doses by the end of his first 100 days in office.

A rare painting by Vincent Van Gogh has been sold at auction for 13.1 million euros (15.4 million dollars) well beyond expectations it would sell for between 5 and 8 million euros.

An upcoming edition of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy will include paintings, drawings and other illustrations by the author himself, J.R.R. Tolkien, since it was published in the mid-1950s.

Protesters against the going ahead of the Olympic and Paralympic Games - Tokyo 2020, marched through a Ginza shopping street in Tokyo calling for the Games to be postponed.

Protesters against the going ahead of the Olympic and Paralympic Games - Tokyo 2020, marched through a Ginza shopping street in Tokyo calling for the Games to be postponed.

The relay began in northeastern Fukushima prefecture, the area that was devastated by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and the meltdown of three nuclear reactors. About 18,000 died in the tragedy.

Major League Baseball is increasing its monitoring of baseballs in an attempt to suppress any use of foreign substances by pitchers.