Moments of the week (8/3-8/9)
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Smoke rises from an explosion site at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday. Beirut's huge explosion which has killed at least 137 people and injured nearly 5,000. (Photo: Xinhua)
Staff members transfer a giant panda out of the plane at Yangzhou Taizhou International Airport in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, on Wednesday. (Photo: Xinhua)
Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, gave a speech at the ceremony on Wednesday, saying Japan is committed to the nuclear weapons ban and urged world leaders to help build a "nuclear-free world." (Photo: CFP)
Chinese scientists confirmed that bird ovaries can be preserved in fossils, providing evidence for the reproductive evolution of birds on Thursday. (Photo: VCG)
The satellite, Gaofen 9 04, is sent into orbit by a Long March 2D carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, on Friday. The satellite will be mainly used for land surveys, city planning, land right confirmation, road network design, crop yield estimation and disaster prevention and mitigation. (Photo: China News Service)
Ballet dancers perform at the Edinburgh Festival theatre after the Edinburgh International Festival has been cancelled and turned into a digital event due to the COVID-19 outbreak, in Edinburgh, Britain, on Monday. (Photo: Ecns)
Aerial photo taken on Tuesday, shows a photovoltaic power station at the green industrial development park in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Hainan, northwest China's Qinghai Province. The photovoltaic power station generates electricity and helps increase the income of impoverished people. (Photo: Xinhua)
Rescuers work at the plane crashlanding scene at Kozhikode Airport in India's southern state of Kerala, on Saturday. The death toll in Friday evening's aircraft crashlanding accident in southern India has risen to 14, with 123 others injured, a local police officer has confirmed. (Photo: Xinhua)
The Italian Frecce Tricolori (Tricolor Arrows) aerobatics team fly over the new Genoa Saint George Bridge in Genoa, Italy, on Tuesday. Italy's new Genoa Saint George Bridge, which replaces the viaduct that collapsed two years ago and killed 43 people, was inaugurated in the northwestern port city of Genoa on Monday. (Photo: Xinhua)
To celebrate the Chinese National Fitness Day on August 8, jogging lovers have a joint running at a park in Tongren, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on Friday. (Photo: VCG; complied by Zhu Zhenlun)