Super Blood Moon seen across world

07:47, May 27, 2021

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  Don't look down: Workers fix power line

  Electrical workers dangle, overhaul and maintain 500-kilovolt power lines that cross the sea at the city of Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang Province, on Tuesday.The lines stretch 58.7 kilometers from a power substation in Zhoushan to another substation in Ningbo. The grid was upgraded from 220 kilovolts in 2019.Electrical workers overhaul and maintain 500-kilovolt power lines that cross the sea at the city of Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang Province, on Tuesday.Electrical workers overhaul and maintain 500-kilovolt power lines that cross the sea at the city of Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang Province, on Tuesday.Electrical workers climb to a tower before maintaining the power lines. (Photos: people.com.cn)

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  Lotus flowers bloom in Fuzhou in early summer

  ThephotocapturedbyMay25,2021showslotusflowersgraduallybloomatChatingParkinFuzhou,eastChina’sFujian,sincethesummerarrives.(ChinaNewsService/ZhangBin)

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  In pictures: seven decades of China-Pakistan friendship

  The Youyi (Friendship) Bridge across the Indus River in the city of Thakolt, North Pakistan's Frontier Province on August 17, 2004. This bridge on the Karakoram Highway was so named in memory of the engineers and workers from both countries who lost their lives in the joint construction of the highway between 1966 and 1978.Trucks carrying 6,000 tents set off from a police headquarters in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, along the Karakoram Highway on May 21, 2008 towards China’s earthquake-stricken areas. A devastating earthquake struck Wenchuan in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province on May 12 that year.A Chinese rescue team member (right) bids farewell to a Pakistani friend on September 14, 2010. Pakistan in 2010 was hit by a devastating flood that lasted more than a month. The Chinese government dispatched two rescue teams.Luo Fangming, captain of China's hockey team, bumps heads with the captain of Pakistan's hockey team before training in Karachi, Pakistan, on December 20, 2011.Pakistani evacuees arrive at an airport in Chaklala, Rawalpindi, Pakistan on April 3, 2015. A day earlier 176 Pakistanis boarded the Chinese frigate Linyi at the Port of Aden in Yemen as war threatened to engulf the region.Villager Ali Ahmed, who has volunteered to guard the mausoleum since 1978, tidies up a cemetery on the eastern outskirts of the northern Pakistani city of Gilgit on March 25, 2015. Eighty-eight Chinese are buried here. They died building the Karakoram Highway, a joint project of China and Pakistan.Widow Wu Jianbang is consoled by a Pakistani citizen with the Chinese name of “Ma Jilong” at a 40th anniversary reunion event held in Urumqi, capital of Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on August 6, 2017. Wu’s late husband Dr Wang Xianzhi was a Chinese surgeon who assisted the Karakoram Highway construction team in 1968. Before leaving Pakistan, Wang operated on Ma’s chronically ill mother. They subsequently lost touch. Ma’s mother entreated him to find and th...

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  Space tourism draws near as Virgin Galactic makes fitst manned flight

  VirginGalacticmakesitsmannedspaceflightfromNewMexicotothefringeofspace,May22,2021.Thecompanyhasrampedupeffortsneartwo-decadestocreateacommercial"spaceline"totakecustomersintoouterspace.Thecommercialserviceisprojectedlaunchedin2022.