This photo taken on Jan. 28, 2026 shows the lightning over the skyline of Kuwait City, Kuwait. (Photo by Asad/Xinhua)
A staff member shows horse-themed stamps marking the Year of the Horse in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jan. 29, 2026.
Malaysia issued a set of stamps to celebrate the Year of the Horse on Thursday. (Photo by Chong Voon Chung/Xinhua)
Members of the National Assembly of Venezuela raise their hands to vote at a regular session in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Jan. 29, 2026.
Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday passed a partial reform of the Organic Law on Hydrocarbons proposed by the country's acting president Delcy Rodriguez earlier this month. (National Assembly of Venezuela/Handout via Xinhua)
Workers of China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd conduct maintenance work in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 29, 2026.
Railway departments nationwide are conducting train maintenance to ensure safe operations for the upcoming 2026 Spring Festival travel rush. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)
This photo taken on Jan. 21, 2026 shows the Chuang-tzu 2.0, a two-dimensional superconducting processor consisting of 78 qubits, at a lab of the Institute of Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, capital of China.
Chinese scientists observed a tunable prethermal plateau in a 78-qubit quantum processor, showing how random multipolar driving controls the system's heating before full thermalization.
The study, led by researchers from the Institute of Physics under the CAS and Peking University, was published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
Zhang Shuai greets the audience after winning the women's doubles semifinal match between Zhang Shuai (China)/Elise Mertens (Belgium) and Shibahara Ena (Japan)/Vera Zvonareva (Russia) at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 29, 2026.
(Xinhua/Ma Ping)
A staff member arranges gold accessories at a gold shop in Yangzhou City of east China's Jiangsu Province, Jan. 29, 2026.
Both the international spot gold price and the April gold futures price on the New York Mercantile Exchange broke through the historical high of 5,500 U.S. dollars per ounce on Jan. 28. (Photo by Meng Delong/Xinhua)
A construction worker is seen at an offshore oil and gas platform at the Binhai New Area in north China's Tianjin on Jan. 29, 2026.
Enterprises across the country are going full steam ahead in production at the end of January, striving for a strong start in the first month of a new year. (Photo by Du Penghui/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Jan. 29, 2026 shows employees stirring fermenting soy sauce at a traditional brewery in Tengzhou, east China's Shandong Province. (Photo by Li Zhijun/Xinhua)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks at a start-of-year press conference at the UN headquarters in New York, Jan. 29, 2026.
Guterres on Thursday warned that power is prevailing over law globally and called for the acceleration of multipolarity. (Mark Garten/UN Photo/Handout via Xinhua)