BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.
Photo taken on Aug. 19, 2019 shows the accident site where a tour bus carrying Chinese tourists crashed near the northern town of Luang Prabang, Laos. Eight Chinese nationals were killed, 29 others injured and one remained missing in a bus crash in northern Laos, the Chinese Embassy to Laos told Xinhua on Tuesday. The crash happened when a tour bus carrying 43 Chinese tourists, one Chinese tour assistant and two Lao nationals including the driver and a tour guide, skidded off a road between the capital Vientiane and the northern town of Luang Prabang. (Photo by Yang Xiumin/Xinhua)
Vehicles are stranded due to landslide after a heavy rain near the tourist spot Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, India, on Aug. 18, 2019. Over 40 people have died in rain-related incidents in India's northern states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab in the last 24 hours, media reports said on Monday. (Str/Xinhua)
Firefighters work at the site of a blast in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Aug. 19, 2019. At least 17 people have been injured as six explosive devices placed by militants went off in parts of Jalalabad city, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, on Monday, provincial governor's spokesman Attaullah Khogiani said. (Photo by Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua)
The United Nations flag which was retrieved from the bombing site of the UN headquarters in Baghdad is pictured at the UN headquarters in New York, on Aug. 19, 2019. The United Nations held a wreath-laying ceremony Monday to commemorate its 22 staffers killed in the 2003 attack in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. After that, Aug. 19 was designated as the World Humanitarian Day by the UN General Assembly in 2008 to mark the bombing that targeted the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq on Aug. 19, 2003. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)
Afghans celebrate Afghan Independence Day in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, Aug. 19, 2019 . (Photo by Rahmatullah Alizadah/Xinhua)
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)'s Z-8G rescue helicopter participates in the "Peace Train-2019" China-Laos humanitarian and medical joint rescue exercise in the northern suburbs of Lao capital Vientiane, Aug. 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Zhang Jianhua)
A masked dancer naps after the performance during the Nil Barahi dance festival at Bode in Bhaktapur, Nepal, Aug. 19, 2019. The festival is an annual event during which dancers perform while posing as various deities that people worship to seek blessings. (Photo by Sunil Sharma/Xinhua)
People make traditional decorative objects with palm tree leaves at their home in Deir al-Balah refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, Aug. 19, 2019. (Xinhua/Khaled Omar)
Xie Ziben, a villager from Juzhou Village, performs single bamboo drifting at Dadaotou Village of Hongkou Town in Ningde City, southeast China's Fujian Province, Aug. 18, 2019. Single bamboo drifting, also known as "Zhanmu", dates back to over 600 years ago. It was once used to transport logs by locals, but nowadays has become a traditional performance to attract visitors. (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)
Sun Xueqin (R), assistant research fellow of affair management office of west campus of the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and his wife Zhang Xue, resident doctor of anesthesiology department, pose for a photo at their work place of the Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 13, 2019. China has about 3.6 million qualified physicians and 4.1 million registered nurses. They have formed a strong force to support the most significant medical service system in the world of safeguarding the health of 1.4 billion people in the country.
China designated Aug. 19 as Medical Workers' Day last year to call for respect from society for the country's medical and health workers.
On this year's Medical Workers' Day, photographers of China's Xinhua News Agency focus with their lens on 11 pairs of physician couples, both of whom work at the same hospital, in different ages. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)
Athletes compete in the women's 3000m steeplechase during Muller Birmingham Grand Prix & IAAF Diamond League event at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, Britain on Aug. 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Han Yan)
China's Lu Guangzu returns the shuttle during the men's singles first round match against Germany's Kai Schaefer at the BWF World Championships 2019 in Basel, Switzerland, Aug. 19, 2019. (Xinhua/Li Jundong)
People play surfing at Wedi Awu beach in Malang, East Java, Indonesia. Aug. 19, 2019. (Photo by Bayu Novanta/Xinhua)
