BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.
Fu Guohao (R), a journalist from Global Times, a Beijing-based newspaper, leaves Princess Margaret Hospital in south China's Hong Kong, Aug. 14, 2019. More than 100 of Hong Kong residents came to the hospital on Wednesday, where the reporter assaulted by violent protesters last night at the Hong Kong airport received treatment, voicing their support for his bravery and strong opposition to escalating violence in Hong Kong.
Fu Guohao was seized by a group of masked protesters when covering the situation at the airport on Tuesday night. He had been assaulted and detained before finally rescued by police as protesters flooding the airport refused to let him and first-aid personnel go. (Xinhua/Wang Shen)
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, Aug. 14, 2019. U.S. stocks closed remarkably lower on Wednesday, as persisting fears over an imminent recession struck a blow to the already-dampened investor sentiment.
The Dow plunged 800.49 points, or 3.05 percent to 25,479.42, marking the largest daily decline of the year so far. The S&P 500 decreased 85.72 points, or 2.93 percent, to 2,840.60. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 242.42 points, or 3.02 percent, to 7,773.94. (Xinhua/Guo Peiran)
File photo taken in March 2016 shows Almazbek Atambayev meeting with local residents in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. A number of criminal cases were initiated against the associates of former President Almazbek Atambayev and himself, Prosecutor General of Kyrgyzstan Otkurbek Dzhamshitov told reporters in Osh on Tuesday.
He said that the former president is charged with murder of a soldier of special forces, using force against law enforcement officers, organizing mass unrest and hostage-taking. (Kyrgyz presidential press service/Handout via Xinhua)
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer (on screen) briefs the UN Security Council meeting on the promotion and strengthening of the rule of law in the maintenance of international peace and security, at the UN headquarters in New York, Aug. 13, 2019. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)
Aerial photo taken on Aug. 10, 2019 shows the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Stunning aerial shots display captivating sceneries of Lhasa, which sits at an altitude of 3,650 meters above sea level. (Xinhua/Wang Jianhua)
New subway cars are seen in a workshop in Boston, Massachusetts, the United States, Aug. 14, 2019. New subway cars built by a Chinese company for Boston residents started their first run in the U.S. city of Boston on Wednesday. The first 6 of 152 cars started running on the Orange Line of Boston's subway system MBTA in the morning. For Boston residents, the new cars will increase the capacity of the line by 30,000 seats daily when all of them are fully in service. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
Photo taken on Aug. 11, 2019 shows tourists sitting around a bonfire at the Makgadikgadi salt pan in north Botswana. (Xinhua/Yang Mengxi)
Floral artists adjust their work on the first day of the Flowertime exhibition in the Brussels Town Hall in Brussels, Belgium, Aug. 14, 2019. Every other summer, in alternation with the Flower Carpet of the Grand Place, the City Hall of Brussels receives Flowertime. This year, during the five-day event, floral artists from many countries and regions use more than 100,000 flowers to decorate the historical rooms of the Town Hall. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)
Photo taken on Aug. 13, 2019 shows a scenery on the Kalajun grassland in Tekes County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)
Christian Bassogog (top) of Henan Jianye breaks through during a Chinese Football Association Super League match against Jiangsu Suning in Nanjing of east China's Jiangsu Province, Aug. 14, 2019. (Xinhua/Li Bo)
French rope walker Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga walks on a rope in Prague, the Czech Republic, Aug. 14, 2019. Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga from the French troupe Cie Basinga Wednesday crossed the Vltava River on a 350-meter-long rope at the height of 35 meters in Prague. She crossed the river without any visible protection, using a four-metre-long balance pole weighing 12 kg. The whole journey took her about 40 minutes. (Photo by Dana Kesnerova/Xinhua)
Aerial photo taken on Aug. 14, 2019 shows staff members of China Railway Xiongan Construction Co., Ltd. clearing up wastes of a pond at Yipuxi Village of Xiongzhou Township in Xiongan New Area, north China's Hebei Province. Xiongan New Area started the work to clean up all its polluted ponds in 2018. By now, over 800 polluted ponds have been finished in stages of refuse disposal, wastewater filtration and comprehensive environmental improvement. The main work now has turned to the ecological restoration to those treated ponds, which is expected to be finished by end of 2019. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
Pakistani soldiers attend a ceremony at the mausoleum of the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah to mark the country's Independence Day in southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, Aug. 14, 2019. Pakistan got independence from the British colonial rule on Aug. 14, 1947 after a heroic struggle under the leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. (Str/Xinhua)
Croatian and Chinese police officers patrol in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Aug. 9, 2019. Chinese police officers who had been patrolling in Croatia for a month during tourist season finished their work on Wednesday.
Eight officers from east China's Jiangsu Province patrolled with their Croatian counterparts in Zagreb, Zadar, Dubrovnik and Plitvice Lakes National Park, all popular tourist destinations where each year more and more Chinese come to visit. (Xinhua/Gao Lei)
A competitor presents embroidery skills during the 5th Guizhou women's special manual skills and innovative products competition held in Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, Aug. 14, 2019. In 2013, a program was carried out by local government to train rural women in embroidery, wax dyeing and other handicrafts, helping them shake off poverty. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
