This long exposure photo taken on Dec. 26, 2025 shows the starry sky over the desert in Wadi Al-Hitan of Fayoum, Egypt. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

The control tower of LaGuardia Airport is pictured during a snowstorm in New York, the United States, on Dec. 26, 2025.

A snowstorm hit New York on Friday, which has caused flight delays and cancellations. (Xinhua/Zhang Fengguo)

A Long March-3B rocket carrying the Fengyun-4 03 satellite blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 27, 2025.

The satellite has entered its planned orbit. (Photo by Yang Xi/Xinhua)

A drone photo taken on Dec. 27, 2025 shows people visiting the 38th Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

The 38th Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo opened here for trial on Saturday, with an exhibition area of 1.5 million square meters and a snow-using volume of 120,000 cubic meters. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)

A woman walks past a jewelry stall at a Christmas market at Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy, Dec. 27, 2025. (Xinhua/Li Jing)

An aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 27, 2025 shows the Longmen Bridge in Qinzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

In winter, the Maowei Sea in Guangxi presents picturesque scenery. In recent years, Guangxi has implemented high-standard ecological protection of the marine environment in the Beibu Gulf, transforming the Maowei Sea into a new cultural and tourism landmark. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)

This aerial drone photo taken on Dec. 27, 2025 shows cargo ships loading and unloading containers at Qingdao Port in east China's Shandong Province.

Shandong's port cargo throughput this year exceeded 1.9 billion tonnes on Saturday, with container volume surpassing 47 million TEUs. (Photo by Yu Fangping/Xinhua)

Thai Defense Minister Natthapon Nakpanich (R) holds ceasefire talks with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Tea Seiha at a border checkpoint in Chanthaburi Province, Thailand, Dec. 27, 2025.

Thailand and Cambodia signed an agreement on ceasefire on Saturday. (Xinhua/Sun Weitong)

Champion Team Yongzhou celebrate victory during the awarding ceremony for the 2025 Hunan Football League in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, Dec. 27, 2025. (Xinhua/Chen Sihan)

Mourners gather outside the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque during a funeral procession for victims of a blast in Homs, central Syria, Dec. 27, 2025.

An explosion struck the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in the Wadi al-Dhahab neighborhood on Friday, killing eight people and leaving several others wounded. (Str/Xinhua)

A fisherman fishes on a stilt at a beach in Koggala, Sri Lanka, Dec. 26, 2025. (Photo by Thilina Kaluthotage/Xinhua)

Children perform a drum dance at a kindergarten in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Dec. 27, 2025.

As the New Year approaches, a kindergarten in Yinchuan City held an activity and invited inheritors of intangible cultural heritage to promote lion dance, paper-cutting making and sugar painting. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)