Xinhua photos of the day

Champions Caroline Dolehide (L)/Desirae Krawczyk of the United States celebrate during the awarding ceremony after the women’s doubles final match against Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada)/Erin Routliffe (New Zealand) at the 2024 National Bank Open tennis tournament in Toronto, Canada, Aug. 12, 2024. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua)

Xiong Shaolin (3rd L) and his students pose for a group photo at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 11, 2024.
Chinese scientists have identified a gamma-ray spectral line with energy levels peaking at 37 million electron volts, the highest-energy gamma-ray spectral line ever observed from cosmic celestial bodies. The discovery will significantly advance the understanding of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).
The study, led by researchers from IHEP, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was published as a cover story in the journal Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy on July 25.
Xiong Shaolin, the leader of the research team, who is also the principal investigator of GECAM series space telescopes at IHEP, noted that these findings hold great significance for studying the physics and mechanisms behind GRBs and relativistic jets launched by GRBs. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

A woman in Tunisian folk costumes attends a celebration of the annual National Women’s Day in Tunis, Tunisia, Aug. 13, 2024. (Photo by Adel Ezzine/Xinhua)

Locals walk through the garbage at the site of the landslide at the Kiteezi landfill in Kampala, Uganda, on Aug 13, 2024.
Ugandan authorities said on Tuesday that more than 1,000 people have been affected by the landslide of the Kiteezi landfill in Kampala’s Kawempe Division, and the death toll has reached 24. (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/Xinhua)

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (2nd R) has a trial ride of an Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit system in Nusantara, the new capital of Indonesia, Aug. 13, 2024.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Tuesday had a trial ride of the Chinese-developed Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit system in the new capital of the Southeast Asian country. (Muchlis Jr/Presidential Press Bureau/Handout via Xinhua)

Hideo Shimizu (L) visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024.
After a 79-year hiatus, Hideo Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, returned to China to acknowledge the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese forces and to offer sincere repentance and apologies to the victims. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

Hideo Shimizu (L) repents and apologizes in front of the monument to “apology and the commitment to peace without war” at the former site of Unit 731 in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024.
Shimizu, a former member of Unit 731, the notorious Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, identified the crimes of the Japanese army on Tuesday at the site where he served 79 years ago in China.
Shimizu, 94, was among the last batch of Unit 731 Youth Corps members sent by Japan to Harbin, China, where he spent more than four months witnessing the war crimes committed by the unit, including the cultivation of pathogens, human dissections and human experiments. He fled China with the retreating Japanese forces on August 14, 1945.
This visit is Shimizu’s first return to Chinese soil in 79 years. (Xinhua/Wang Song)

This photo taken on Aug. 13, 2024 shows Perseid meteor shower and aurora over a section of the Songhua River in Jiamusi City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. (Photo by Chen Zhiguo/Xinhua)

This photo taken on Aug. 12, 2024 shows whale fossil remains at the Wadi Al-Hitan in Fayoum, Egypt.
Wadi Al-Hitan, or Whale Valley, located in the desert of Fayoum, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 10, 2024 shows a scene of Pamukkale in Denizli, Türkiye.
Pamukkale, or Cotton Castle, is a main Turkish tourist attraction known for its white travertine made up of natural calcified waterfalls and a series of terraced basins. (Xinhua/Liu Lei)