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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People have fun at a Spring Festival market in Macao, south China, Feb. 15, 2026. (Photo by Cheong Kam Ka/Xinhua) A tourist learns to make a lacquer-coated fan at a Spring Festival market in Macao, ...

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Italy's veteran alpine skier Federica Brignone thrilled home fans by claiming her second gold medal at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Winter Games in the women ...

Four people were killed on Sunday night in an Israeli drone strike targeting a vehicle along the Lebanese-Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) reported. The ...

ATHENS, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Heavy rainfall and strong winds struck multiple parts of Greece in recent days, triggering landslides, flooding and extensive damage to infrastructure, Greek national ...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and visiting U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday discussed bilateral cooperation in nuclear energy, as well as possible energy cooperation between the ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Tonga Islands at 2054 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 98.5 km, was initially determined ...