A damaged car is pictured at the site of a car-ramming incident in Munich, Germany, Feb. 13, 2025. At least 28 people, including children, were injured after a car plowed into a crowd in Munich, Germany, on Thursday, local police reported.
According to Munich police, some of the victims sustained serious injuries. (Xinhua/Zhang Fan)
Vladislav Kireyev of Kazakhstan competes during the Biathlon men's 4x7.5km relay match at the 9th Asian Winter Games in Yabuli, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 13, 2025. (Xinhua/Wu Zhizun)
Meng Fanqi (2nd L) of China is helped by her teammates Chu Yuanmeng (1st L), Tang Jialin (2nd R) and Wen Ying after crossing the finish line during the Biathlon women's 4x6km relay match at the 9th Asian Winter Games in Yabuli, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 13, 2025. (Xinhua/Xie Jianfei)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 12, 2025 shows a view of the Dead Sea near Ein Gedi beach in Israel. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 12, 2025 shows red "blankets" formed by harvested red chilies in Bogura, Bangladesh. (Xinhua)
Tang Jialin of China competes during the Biathlon women's 4x6km relay match at the 9th Asian Winter Games in Yabuli, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 13, 2025. (Xinhua/Zhang Long)
An aerial drone photo shows students dancing with an intelligent robot dog and a humanoid robot at a primary school in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 13, 2025. (Photo by Zhao Jun/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Feb. 13, 2025 shows a poster for the Chinese animated film "Ne Zha 2" at a cinema in Chaoyang District of Beijing, capital of China. Having amassed over 10 billion yuan (about 1.39 billion U.S. dollars) in global total earnings, including presales, "Ne Zha 2" is the first film to gross 1 billion U.S. dollars in a single market and the first non-Hollywood title to join the coveted billion-dollar club. With domestic earnings projected to surge past 15 billion yuan, the film is poised to become the highest-grossing animated movie of all time and one of the five top-grossing films globally. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)
This photo taken on Feb. 12, 2025 shows a view of the butter sculpture show in Taer Monastery in Huangzhong District of Xining, capital of northwest China's Qinghai Province. The butter sculptures are handmade by lamas in shapes of Buddha figurines, trees, flowers, birds and animals. (Xinhua/Li Ning)
Park workers use snow blowers to clear the area around the Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago, the United States, on Feb. 12, 2025. Chicago is bracing for its first major winter storm of the season as moderate to heavy snow blanketed the U.S. third largest metropolitan city Wednesday. (Photo by Vincent D. Johnson/Xinhua)
This photo taken on Feb. 13, 2025 shows light decorations to mark Valentine's Day in Hamrun, Malta. (Photo by Jonathan Borg/Xinhua)
Wang Min (L), a researcher with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Chen Runsheng, a professor-level senior engineer of Fujian Institute of Geological Survey (FIGS), poses for a photo at the FIGS, in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, Feb. 11, 2025. Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil, dating back about 150 million years, in southeast China's Fujian Province. This suggests that birds might have originated earlier than previously thought.
The fossilized bird Baminornis zhenghensis was discovered in Zhenghe County, Fujian Province. Its short tail ends in a compound bone called the pygostyle, a feature uniquely present in modern birds. This indicates that the body structure of modern birds emerged in the Late Jurassic Period, 20 million years earlier than previously known.
The study, conducted by researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) and the FIGS, was published in the latest issue of the journal Nature. (Xinhua/Jiang Kehong)
