Giant panda Katyusha is seen next to a birthday cake at Moscow Zoo in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 24, 2026. Katyusha, the first giant panda ever born in Russia, celebrated her third birthday on Monday at Moscow Zoo. (Xinhua/Hao Jianwei)
A technician trains a robot at a robot data collection center of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com in Suqian, east China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 24, 2026. In operation since October 2025, JD.com's robot data collection center is a provincial-level embodied intelligent robot data collection center in east China's Jiangsu Province. The facility enhances the data collection scenarios in terms of physical fidelity, generalization ability, and interaction quality. It upgrades the data collection environment to a real physical scene, transforming the data collection center from a static sample library into a training ground for embodied intelligent robots. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)
The robot of Tiangong competes during the 400m Obstacles of the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 24, 2026. (Xinhua/Ju Huanzong)
A woman tries to pet dogs on the street during the Pet-A-Palooza event in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Aug. 23, 2026. (Photo by Liang Sen/Xinhua)
Rescue vehicles are deployed on a bridge to help remove flood debris in the Mingjiang River in Ningming County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 24, 2026. Rescue forces have been deployed in Ningming County where typhoon-triggered heavy rainfall caused flood in the Mingjiang River and its tributaries on Sunday. (Xinhua/Zhou Hua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 23, 2026 shows tourists enjoying sunrise scenery in Zengjiashan scenic spot of Guangyuan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)
Ronald Sakolsky (R) sniffs a sapling after planting it with Yin Yuzhen in the Maowusu Sandy Land in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Aug. 24, 2026. Retired U.S. teacher Ronald Sakolsky revisited the Maowusu Sandy Land on Monday and planted sapling with his friend Yin Yuzhen, a national model worker who has been planting trees here for four decades, as well as Yin's husband Bai Wanxiang.
Their story began in 1999, when Sakolsky taught English at a school in central China's Henan Province under a teachers' exchange program between the two countries.
After watching a television news report featuring Yin's tireless work, he was deeply moved and raised 5,000 U.S. dollars to help Yin and her husband in their afforestation efforts against desertification.
The saplings bought and planted with that donation have since grown into a forest of more than 50,000 towering trees. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)
A visitor listens to dialects of various regions in Hunan at the Exhibition Hall of the Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, Aug. 24, 2026. A new exhibition hall dedicated to the preservation of China's diverse language resources opened on Monday in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, bringing a decade-long effort to document languages and dialects to the public through digital and interactive displays. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge)
Relatives mourn during the funeral of Palestinian child Islam Ahmad Ajjouri, in Askar Al-Jadid refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the West Bank, Aug. 23, 2026. The Palestinian child Islam Ahmad Ajjouri, 14, was killed on Sunday afternoon after succumbing to a critical gunshot wound sustained earlier in the day during an Israeli military raid on Askar Al-Jadid refugee camp. (Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua)
