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

The upper part of the combo photo taken on April 23, 2020 shows Lyu Jun (L), a member of a medical team supporting the novel coronavirus-hit Hubei Province, reuniting with his fiancee Wang He in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The lower part of the combo photo taken on Jan. 28, 2020 shows Lyu Jun (L) saying goodbye to Wang He before leaving for Hubei Province at Xinjiang Medical University in Urumqi. (Xinhua/Wang Fei)

A woman reads a book at a bookstore in Bijie City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 22, 2020. (Photo by Wang Chunliang/Xinhua)

A volunteer makes face masks at the Hafez theater hall in Tehran, Iran, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua)

Zhang Yong, who has cerebral palsy, tries to turn pages with his mouth while reading a book at Nanchuan District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, April 21, 2020. (Photo by Huang Wei/Xinhua)

A boy holds a ball as he looks out of the window of his shanty at a slum area in Quezon City, the Philippines on April 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)

A man works in a brick field during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown on the outskirts of Agartala in Tripura, India, April 23, 2020. (Str/Xinhua)

An employee works at a heavy-duty truck assembly line of Shaanxi Automobile Holding Group Co., Ltd. in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Bowen)

A woman prays outside Matatirtha temple on the Nepali Mother's Day, or Mata Tirtha Aunsi, in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 23, 2020. (Photo by Sulav Shrestha/Xinhua)

A fighter of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) of Libya takes a position in Salah Al-Din frontline in Tripoli on April 22, 2020. (Photo by Amru Salahuddien/Xinhua)

Chefs work at a restaurant in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Bowen)

Triplets of white lion cubs play outdoors at Nantong Forest Safari Park in Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, April 23, 2020. The nearly two-month-old triplets made their debut at the park on Thursday. They will formally meet tourists on May 1. (Photo by Xu Congjun/Xinhua)

A serviceman works at a drive-through COVID-19 testing facility in Southport, Britain, on April 23, 2020. (Photo by Jon Super/Xinhua)

Aerial photo taken on April 23, 2020 shows a station of Subway Line 18 under construction in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

Aerial photo taken on April 23, 2020 shows a rainbow over the Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River on the border of northwest China's Shaanxi Province and north China's Shanxi Province. (Xinhua/Tao Ming)■


