BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A selection of the best press photos from Xinhua.
Yin Yuzhen is reunited with Ronald Sakolsky at an airport in Ordos, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Aug. 23, 2026. Retired U.S. teacher Ronald Sakolsky, who once supported China's desertification control efforts, arrived in Ordos on Sunday and was reunited with his friend Yin Yuzhen, a national model worker who has been planting trees in the Maowusu Sandy Land for four decades. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)Rescuers transfer stranded residents in Ningming County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 23, 2026. For days, Ningming County has been battered by typhoon-triggered heavy rainfall. Response forces have pooled their efforts to urgently evacuate stranded residents. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)The robot of Tianjiao Team competes during the final of Long Jump of the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 23, 2026. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)Gold medalists Wang Chang (L) and Liang Weikeng of China pose on the podium after the men's doubles final between Wang Chang/Liang Weikeng of China and Aaron Chia/Soh Wooi Yik of Malaysia at BWF World Championships in New Delhi, Aug. 23, 2026. (Xinhua/Javed Dar)A drone photo taken on Aug. 23, 2026 shows the ship, named Ural and owned by Kalyoncu Denizcilik, at the port of Samsun, Türkiye. The ship, which was attacked around midnight off Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, has arrived at the Port of Samsun on Saturday. One sailor was killed and eight others were injured after it came under attack. (Mustafa Kaya/Handout via Xinhua)Firefighters are seen in an operation to control a spreading wildfire fueled by weeks of extreme summer heat and dry vegetation in Strumica, North Macedonia, Aug. 22, 2026. (Photo by Tomislav Georgiev/Xinhua)This photo taken on Aug. 23, 2026 shows the aftermath of a powerful storm in Riga, Latvia. A powerful cyclone swept northward across the three Baltic states on Saturday, killing two as strong winds, torrential rain and thunderstorms ravaged Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. (Photo by Edijs Palens/Xinhua)This photo taken on Aug. 22, 2026 shows rickshaws on a street in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2023, UNESCO announced the inclusion of Bangladesh's iconic rickshaws and rickshaw painting in Dhaka on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. (Photo by Habibur Rahman/Xinhua)Children play near a traditional threshing demonstration during the Harvest Festival in Provins, France, Aug. 23, 2026. The medieval town of Provins celebrated its Harvest Festival on Sunday, featuring float parades, traditional threshing demonstrations, vintage tractors and folk dances. (Xinhua/Wu Huiwo)■
