A vendor sells highland barley seedlings at a market in Lhasa, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Feb. 15, 2026.

HONG KONG, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's tourist sites and commercial complexes were abuzz with excitement as tourists poured in on Sunday, the first day of the nine-day Spring Festival holiday on ...

People visit a lantern fair in celebration of the upcoming Year of the Horse in Selangor state, Malaysia, Feb. 14, 2026. (Photo by Chong Voon Chung/Xinhua) A tourist takes photos at a lantern fair in ...

MILAN, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Dutch skater Femke Kok won her first Olympic gold in the women's 500m speed skating on Sunday, setting a new Olympic record of 36.49 seconds. Her teammate Jutta Leerdam took ...

MILAN, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Germany's Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin led the pairs figure skating after posting a season-best 80.01 points in the short program on Sunday at the Milan-Cortina ...

CAIRO, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi headed to Geneva on Sunday for a second round of Tehran-Washington indirect talks, even as relevant parties laid out starkly ...

ADEN, Yemen, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- At least one person was killed and more than 30 others were injured in a fire that broke out at a shopping mall in Yemen's northeastern oil-rich province of Marib on ...

PREDAZZO, Italy, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Anna Odine Stroem clinched her second gold medal of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Sunday, winning the women's individual large hill ski jumping event ahead ...

LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo became the first athlete in Winter Olympic history to win nine gold medals, while host nation Italy witnessed another golden ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said he would support Israeli strikes on Iran's ballistic missile program if negotiations between Washington and Tehran fail, U.S. media ...

MOSCOW, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Russian forces have seized control of 12 settlements since the start of February despite severe winter conditions, Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of the ...