Devon Dotson (2nd R) of Joventut Badalona falls during a warmup basketball match between Chinese men's basketball team and Spanish Liga ACB club Joventut Badalona in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Sept. 20, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Yibo)
A humanoid robot demonstrates its object handling skills at the 2024 World Manufacturing Convention in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, Sept. 20, 2024. The 2024 World Manufacturing Convention opened Friday in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, highlighting the latest products and innovations in the manufacturing sector.
Themed "Intelligent Manufacturing for a Better Future," the four-day event boasts a total exhibition area of 20,000 square meters and includes exhibitions, forums and seminars. (Xinhua/Huang Bohan)
A man catches a box of fish at the Gurpinar aquatic products market in Istanbul, Türkiye, Sept. 18, 2024. The market has become busy since September as Türkiye enters the peak fishing season which typically lasts until April of the following year. (Xinhua/Liu Lei)
Smoke traces are seen as an Israeli anti-missile system intercepts rockets fired from Lebanon, near the northern Israeli border with Lebanon, on Sept. 20, 2024. Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets at more than 30 settlements in western Galilee and a key intelligence base in northern Israel on Friday, retaliating for an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs that killed at least 12 people and wounded 66 others, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. (Ayal Margolin/JINI via Xinhua)
A boy sits on debris after an Israeli bombardment in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Sept. 20, 2024. (Photo by Marwan Dawood/Xinhua)
Zhang Shupeng of China competes during the flying through targets competition at the 10th World Wingsuit League (WWL) Wingsuit Flying World Championship at the Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province, on Sept. 19, 2024. (Xinhua/Chen Sihan)
A model presents a creation from Women's wear Spring/Summer 2025 collections of Sportmax during Milan Fashion Week in Milan, Italy, on Sept. 20, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Jing)
Tao Yonghong makes a Gan hair embroidery work at an exhibition center for intangible cultural heritage in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sept. 13, 2024. Gan hair embroidery is an art that uses human hair as thread to create intricate designs on fabric. With a history of nearly 500 years, it is recognized as an intangible cultural heritage of Jiangxi Province. The word Gan itself is a shortened name for Jiangxi.
In the hands of Tao Yonghong, the 17th generation inheritor of Gan hair embroidery making skills, hair becomes the ink and colors of a painter that depict all sorts of objects such as landscapes, figures, flowers and birds.
Apart from inheriting the traditions, Tao has developed many customized works, sewing memories and blessings into the embroidery works for her clients. (Xinhua/Sui Shangjun)
Children members of a lion dance troupe are seen during a performance in Rawang, Selangor, Malaysia, Sept. 13, 2024. (Xinhua/Cheng Yiheng)
A citizen rides amid rainfall in a street in Shanghai, east China, Sept. 20, 2024. China's financial hub, Shanghai, had evacuated 112,000 people as of Friday morning due to Typhoon Pulasan, which brought record-breaking rainfall to parts of the city.
According to the municipal flood control office, 649 vessels have either been evacuated or returned to port to seek shelter, 54 train services have been suspended, and 26 ferries' operations have been halted. (Photo by Chen Haoming/Xinhua)
