Xinhua Photos of the Day (Jan. 21)

Xinhua
21 Jan 2021, 08:25 GMT+10

BEIJING, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- The world in the past 24hrs. A selection of the best daily press photos from Xinhua.

© Provided by Xinhua | U.S. President-elect Joe Biden (L, Front) is sworn in as the 46th President of the United States in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Jan. 20, 2021. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)

© Provided by Xinhua | People celebrate Timket, the annual Ethiopian epiphany festival, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Jan. 19, 2021. (Xinhua/Michael Tewelde)

© Provided by Xinhua | Photo taken on Jan. 19, 2021 shows a view of the Senate ahead of a confidence vote in Rome, Italy. Conte won a confidence vote on Tuesday at the upper house of parliament. He won in the 321-seat Senate by 156 to 140, with 16 abstentions, falling short of the 161 votes needed for an absolute majority. (Pool via Xinhua)

© Provided by Xinhua | Rescuers drill a channel at the explosion site of a gold mine in Qixia City, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 19, 2021. One trapped worker is in a coma after sustaining severe head injuries in a gold mine blast in east China's Shandong Province, local authorities said Tuesday. The rescue work is still underway. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)

© Provided by Xinhua | Photo taken on Jan. 20, 2021 shows the scenery of Nile River in Nahr al-Neel State, Sudan. (Photo by Mohamed Khidir/Xinhua)

© Provided by Xinhua | Volunteers prepare free Laba congee for the elderly at Zhashuwu Village in Huzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 19, 2021. The Laba Festival, literally the eighth day of the 12th lunar month, is considered a prelude to the Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)

© Provided by Xinhua | Maintenance workers work on Xixi River Grand Bridge of the Chengdu-Guiyang railway in southwest China's Guizhou Province, Jan. 19, 2021. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)

© Provided by Xinhua | Jiri Pavlenka, goalkeeper of Bremen, makes a save during a German Bundesliga football match between Borussia Moenchengladbach and SV Werder Bremen in Moenchengladbach, Germany, Jan. 19, 2021. (Xinhua)

© Provided by Xinhua | Lester Hudson (Front C) of Shandong Heroes celebrates with his teammates after winning the 32nd round match against Jiangsu Dragons at the 2020-2021 season of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) league in Zhuji, east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 20, 2021. Lester Hudson became the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA)'s all-time leading scorer on Wednesday by hitting his career tally to 11,842 points, surpassing Yi Jianlian's record of 11,839. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)

© Provided by Xinhua | Aerial photo taken on Jan. 19, 2021 shows the temporary hospital project of the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Center in south China's Hong Kong.

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