Blackpink's Rose had a gift for the world on Friday — the release of her highly anticipated first solo album, R.

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Bua Yai Hospital has expressed "regret" over the death of a 46-year-old patient with a swollen, injured leg who was left waiting in a wheelchair, unattended for several hours.

Prominent political campaigner Angkhana Neelapaijit has lambasted Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha as lacking the "political will" to shed light on the disappearance of political activists, including her husband who vanished 17 years ago.

SHANGHAI: A baby raccoon to stroke while you sip your skinny latte? Or a snake to coil around you after your cappuccino?

YANGON: Britain on Friday advised its citizens to flee Myanmar, as a UN expert warned the junta is likely committing "crimes against humanity" in its attempt to stay in power.

Australia's government will subsidise 800,000 half-price airfares as part of a A$1.2 billion (45 billion baht) package to prop up the nation's ailing tourism industry.

FLORENCE: Dante's "Divine Comedy," considered one of the world's greatest literary works, came to light after a miscarriage of justice which Italian legal experts now want to correct -- some seven centuries on.

LOY YANG, Australia: A Japanese-Australian venture has begun producing hydrogen from brown coal in a A$500 million (US$390 million) pilot project that aims to show liquefied hydrogen can be produced commercially and exported safely overseas.

The government on Friday reported 81 new Covid-19 cases, 67 local infections and 14 imported, raising the total to 26,679.

NAKHON PHANOM: With much of Isan already struggling with water shortages this dry season, residents of a village in Na Wa district welcome it as the perfect time to catch and dry tokay geckos for export.