China: Student Surprised by Five Peacocks Standing in “Perfect Line” at School

On December 8, 2025, in Kunming, Yunnan, the video captured the young man walking up a school stairwell when he suddenly came face-to-face with five peacocks standing in a straight line on the steps. The birds appeared calm and orderly, their identical spacing and posture making them look as if they had been copied and pasted into the hallway.

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Republican of South Dakota) meets reporters in the hallway outside the US Senate Chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, October 2, 2023. Photo by Andrew Thomas / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Republican of South Dakota) meets reporters in the hallway outside the US Senate Chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, October 2, 2023. Photo by Andrew Thomas / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Republican of South Dakota) meets reporters in the hallway outside the US Senate Chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, October 2, 2023. Photo by Andrew Thomas / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Republican of South Dakota) meets reporters in the hallway outside the US Senate Chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, October 2, 2023. Photo by Andrew Thomas / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Republican of South Dakota) meets reporters in the hallway outside the US Senate Chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, October 2, 2023. Photo by Andrew Thomas / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Republican of South Dakota) meets reporters in the hallway outside the US Senate Chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, October 2, 2023. Photo by Andrew Thomas / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Republican of South Dakota) meets reporters in the hallway outside the US Senate Chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, October 2, 2023. Photo by Andrew Thomas / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Republican of South Dakota) meets reporters in the hallway outside the US Senate Chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, October 2, 2023. Photo by Andrew Thomas / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Republican of South Dakota) meets reporters in the hallway outside the US Senate Chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, October 2, 2023. Photo by Andrew Thomas / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

John Thune Meets Reporters Press Conference

United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune (Republican of South Dakota) meets reporters in the hallway outside the US Senate Chamber in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, October 2, 2023. Photo by Andrew Thomas / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Aleppo Christians Mark Feast of the Cross

Aleppo Christians Mark Feast of the Cross

A church hallway is seen during the Feast of the Cross in Aleppo, Syria on September 14, 2025. The sacred occasion brings together Christian communities to honor the cross as a symbol of light, peace, and renewed faith. Photo by Omar Albaw/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

US: Hawaii Hotel Guests Evacuated to Higher Floors Amid Tsunami Threat

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's eastern coast on Tuesday, July 29, triggered a tsunami warning for the Hawaiian Islands and prompted evacuations from coastal areas. In O'ahu, hotel guests on lower floors were forced to sleep in the hallway of higher floors for safety.

Senator Alan Simpson

Senator Alan Simpson

United States Senator Alan Simpson (Republican of Wyoming) is interviewed in a Capitol Hill hallway in Washington, DC on Wednesday, May 15, 1996. Photo by Arnie Sachs / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Senator Alan Simpson

Senator Alan Simpson

United States Senator Alan Simpson (Republican of Wyoming) is interviewed in a Capitol Hill hallway in Washington, DC on Wednesday, May 15, 1996. Photo by Arnie Sachs / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Prisoned ISIS fighters in the Kurdish region - Northeastern Syria

Prisoned ISIS fighters in the Kurdish region - Northeastern Syria

A prison guard walks in the hallway inside the ISIS prison in Al-Hasaka, Syria, on January 31, 2025. The facility, controlled by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), holds around 9,000 suspected ISIS members from multiple countries. Photo by SQ/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Prisoned ISIS fighters in the Kurdish region - Northeastern Syria

Prisoned ISIS fighters in the Kurdish region - Northeastern Syria

A prison guard walks in the hallway inside the ISIS prison in Al-Hasaka, Syria, on January 31, 2025. The facility, controlled by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), holds around 9,000 suspected ISIS members from multiple countries. Photo by SQ/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration of an elementary school - Longjumeau AJ

Illustration of an elementary school - Longjumeau AJ

Children's coats hang on coat racks in a school hallway as France's Minister of Education, Higher Education and Research visits the French elementary school Helene Boucher for the start of the new school year following the Christmas holidays in Longjumeau, south of Paris, France on January 6, 2025. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration of an elementary school - Longjumeau AJ

Illustration of an elementary school - Longjumeau AJ

Children's coats hang on coat racks in a school hallway as France's Minister of Education, Higher Education and Research visits the French elementary school Helene Boucher for the start of the new school year following the Christmas holidays in Longjumeau, south of Paris, France on January 6, 2025. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

Illustration of an elementary school - Longjumeau AJ

Illustration of an elementary school - Longjumeau AJ

Children's coats hang on coat racks in a school hallway as France's Minister of Education, Higher Education and Research visits the French elementary school Helene Boucher for the start of the new school year following the Christmas holidays in Longjumeau, south of Paris, France on January 6, 2025. Photo by Alexis Jumeau/ABACAPRESS.COM

Death Toll Tops 45,000 Palestinians - Gaza

Death Toll Tops 45,000 Palestinians - Gaza

A child leans on a stair railing in a hallway of an UNRWA school in Bureij camp, central Gaza Strip, on December 13, 2024. Displaced families living in UNRWA schools face ongoing challenges while trying to retain aspects of their daily routines. More than 45,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas militants, health officials in the embattled territory said Monday, as often-stalled ceasefire negotiations appeared to be gaining ground. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Death Toll Tops 45,000 Palestinians - Gaza

Death Toll Tops 45,000 Palestinians - Gaza

A child stands alone near a hallway wall in an UNRWA school in Bureij camp, central Gaza Strip, on December 13, 2024. Displaced families living in UNRWA schools face ongoing challenges while trying to retain aspects of their daily routines. More than 45,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas militants, health officials in the embattled territory said Monday, as often-stalled ceasefire negotiations appeared to be gaining ground. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Death Toll Tops 45,000 Palestinians - Gaza

Death Toll Tops 45,000 Palestinians - Gaza

A woman hangs clothes to dry in a school hallway turned shelter in Bureij camp, central Gaza Strip, on December 13, 2024. Displaced families living in UNRWA schools face ongoing challenges while trying to retain aspects of their daily routines. More than 45,000 Palestinians have now been killed in the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas militants, health officials in the embattled territory said Monday, as often-stalled ceasefire negotiations appeared to be gaining ground. Photo by Moiz Salhi/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Israeli Strikes Pound Lebanon

Israeli Strikes Pound Lebanon

The view of Ahmad Khatib’s hallway following an Israeli airstrike on the building next to his in the Basta area of Beirut, Lebanon. Photo by Oliver Marsden/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Israeli Strikes Pound Lebanon

Israeli Strikes Pound Lebanon

The view of Ahmad Khatib’s hallway following an Israeli airstrike on the building next to his in the Basta area of Beirut, Lebanon. Photo by Oliver Marsden/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Israeli Strikes Pound Lebanon

Israeli Strikes Pound Lebanon

The view of Ahmad Khatib’s hallway following an Israeli airstrike on the building next to his in the Basta area of Beirut, Lebanon. Photo by Oliver Marsden/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Monaco player #8 Jordan Loyd is seen in the hallway with a staff member before returning to the floor to announce his signing to the club for two more years before the Betclic Elite basketball championship between AS Monaco and Stade rochelais basket at the Gaston Medecin Hall in Monaco on October 12, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Monaco player #8 Jordan Loyd is seen in the hallway with a staff member before returning to the floor to announce his signing to the club for two more years before the Betclic Elite basketball championship between AS Monaco and Stade rochelais basket at the Gaston Medecin Hall in Monaco on October 12, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Monaco players #8 Jordan Loyd (R) and #11 Alpha Diallo (L) are seen in the hallway with a member of staff before the Monaco match of the Betclic Elite basketball championship between AS Monaco and Stade rochelais basket at the Gaston Medecin Hall in Monaco on October 12, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Monaco player #8 Jordan Loyd is seen in the hallway with a staff member before returning to the floor to announce his signing to the club for two more years before the Betclic Elite basketball championship between AS Monaco and Stade rochelais basket at the Gaston Medecin Hall in Monaco on October 12, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Monaco players #8 Jordan Loyd (R) and #11 Alpha Diallo (L) are seen in the hallway with a member of staff before the Monaco match of the Betclic Elite basketball championship between AS Monaco and Stade rochelais basket at the Gaston Medecin Hall in Monaco on October 12, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Betclic Elite - AS Monaco v Stade Rochelais

Monaco player #8 Jordan Loyd is seen in the hallway with a staff member before returning to the floor to announce his signing to the club for two more years before the Betclic Elite basketball championship between AS Monaco and Stade rochelais basket at the Gaston Medecin Hall in Monaco on October 12, 2024. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

Israel Targets Historic Baalbek - Lebanon

Israel Targets Historic Baalbek - Lebanon

Two children stand in the hallway of Rayak Hospital in Ghazze, Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, on November 1, 2024. A school in the city of Ghazze opened its doors to receive 28 displaced families, totaling 128 individuals aged between 1 and 86, primarily from the Baalbek region. Photo by Sami Boudra/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Israel Targets Historic Baalbek - Lebanon

Israel Targets Historic Baalbek - Lebanon

Two children stand in the hallway of Rayak Hospital in Ghazze, Baalbek, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, on November 1, 2024. A school in the city of Ghazze opened its doors to receive 28 displaced families, totaling 128 individuals aged between 1 and 86, primarily from the Baalbek region. Photo by Sami Boudra/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Yahya Sinwar Mourning - Tehran

Yahya Sinwar Mourning - Tehran

A mullah in military uniform stands alongside others in a hallway during the ceremony. Tehran, Iran, October 24, 2024. Iran holds commemoration for Yahya Sinwar, with supporters gathering in Tehran. Photo by Hossein Beris/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Jeremie Assous, the lawyer for French actor Gerard Depardieu, speaks to the press in the hallway of the criminal court, in Paris, France on October 28, 2024. Depardieu, 75-years-old, asked for a delay to the start of his trial on sexual assault charges, saying his health prevented him from attending the proceedings, with numerous other complaints and a possible second court case already lying in wait on October 28, 2024. Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Jeremie Assous, the lawyer for French actor Gerard Depardieu, speaks to the press in the hallway of the criminal court, in Paris, France on October 28, 2024. Depardieu, 75-years-old, asked for a delay to the start of his trial on sexual assault charges, saying his health prevented him from attending the proceedings, with numerous other complaints and a possible second court case already lying in wait on October 28, 2024. Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Jeremie Assous, the lawyer for French actor Gerard Depardieu, speaks to the press in the hallway of the criminal court, in Paris, France on October 28, 2024. Depardieu, 75-years-old, asked for a delay to the start of his trial on sexual assault charges, saying his health prevented him from attending the proceedings, with numerous other complaints and a possible second court case already lying in wait on October 28, 2024. Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Jeremie Assous, the lawyer for French actor Gerard Depardieu, speaks to the press in the hallway of the criminal court, in Paris, France on October 28, 2024. Depardieu, 75-years-old, asked for a delay to the start of his trial on sexual assault charges, saying his health prevented him from attending the proceedings, with numerous other complaints and a possible second court case already lying in wait on October 28, 2024. Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Jeremie Assous, the lawyer for French actor Gerard Depardieu, arrives in the hallway of the criminal court, in Paris, France on October 28, 2024. Depardieu, 75-years-old, asked for a delay to the start of his trial on sexual assault charges, saying his health prevented him from attending the proceedings, with numerous other complaints and a possible second court case already lying in wait on October 28, 2024. Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Jeremie Assous, the lawyer for French actor Gerard Depardieu, speaks to the press in the hallway of the criminal court, in Paris, France on October 28, 2024. Depardieu, 75-years-old, asked for a delay to the start of his trial on sexual assault charges, saying his health prevented him from attending the proceedings, with numerous other complaints and a possible second court case already lying in wait on October 28, 2024. Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Gerard Depardieu Asks For Delay To Sex Assault Trial - Paris

Jeremie Assous, the lawyer for French actor Gerard Depardieu, arrives in the hallway of the criminal court, in Paris, France on October 28, 2024. Depardieu, 75-years-old, asked for a delay to the start of his trial on sexual assault charges, saying his health prevented him from attending the proceedings, with numerous other complaints and a possible second court case already lying in wait on October 28, 2024. Photo by Frederic Lafargue/ABACAPRESS.COM

US Has Not Seen Evidence Of Hezbollah Cash Under Hospital - Beirut

US Has Not Seen Evidence Of Hezbollah Cash Under Hospital - Beirut

A quiet hallway inside Sahel General Hospital, lined with photographs depicting its history. The facility operates under strain, offering vital healthcare as Israeli military operations intensify nearby on October 22, 2024. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that he had not seen evidence that there was a Hezbollah bunker filled with cash built under a hospital in Beirut, adding that Washington would continue to work with Israel to get better insights. Israel's military said that Hezbollah has stashed hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker built under a hospital in Beirut, adding that it would not strike the facility as it keeps up attacks against the group's financial assets. Photo by Fadel Itani/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Kamala Harris Accepts Democratic Nomination - Chicago

Kamala Harris Accepts Democratic Nomination - Chicago

People in the hallway of United Center watch Vice President Kamala Harris accepts her party's nomination for president during a speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL, USA, Thursday, August 22, 2024. Photo by Dominic Gwinn/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

Home-based library brings joy of reading to Egyptian village kids

STORY: Home-based library brings joy of reading to Egyptian village kids DATELINE: Aug. 7, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:12 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the home-based library 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): MOHAMED ABEL-AZIZ, Librarian 3. various of librarians working and children reading 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): MAGDA SAEED, Reader 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): ZIYAD REDA, Reader 6. various of librarians working and children reading 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (Arabic): EL-SAYYID EL-SHAHHAT, Parent STORYLINE: In Bishat Amer village in northeast Egypt's Sharqia Province, 34-year-old librarian Mohamed Abel-Aziz often sees dozens of children filling the entrance and hallway stairs of his house, where they read, draw, or practice handwriting. Working at Misr Public Library in Zagazig City of Sharqia, Abel-Aziz has turned most part of the ground floor of his two-storey family house into a public library for the village kids, as he was driven by the sense of mission to help them read and learn. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic)

CHINA-TIBET-MEDICAL TEAM-HOME SERVICE (CN)

CHINA-TIBET-MEDICAL TEAM-HOME SERVICE (CN)

(230615) -- LHASA, June 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Wang Tongxu talks with a patient at the hallway of Mainling People's Hospital in Mainling City, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 12, 2023. Wang Zhenjiang, Chen Bing and Wang Tongxu are doctors of a medical team from a hospital in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, who arrived in Tibet in late February. In order to provide sufficient medical services to the villagers, especially elder people with chronic diseases, they have paid regular home visits to the villages despite of the physical burden they need to endure on the plateau. However, the doctors feel everything is worthwhile when they are warmly welcomed in the village as their visits give lots of villagers easier access to the medical treatment they need. "As a doctor, this is a sense of responsibility and mission," said Wang Tongxu, "It's especially meaningful to me when I can bring some benefits to the local Tibetan villagers with what I have learned." (Xinhua/Shao Zedong)

Philippines braces for strong typhoon

Philippines braces for strong typhoon

TACLOBAN, Philippines - Food and other emergency supplies are piled up in a hallway at the Leyte provincial government offices on the Philippine island of Leyte on Dec. 6, 2014, as powerful Typhoon Hagupit approaches the area devastated by a powerful typhoon in November 2013.

N. Korea unveils part of offices in charge of probe into Japanese

N. Korea unveils part of offices in charge of probe into Japanese

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows Japanese reporters in the hallway on the second floor of the offices of North Korea's special investigation committee in Pyongyang on Oct. 29, 2014. North Korea invited the Japanese press to the hallway about 15 meters in length as officials from the two countries were holding talks on missing Japanese in the room of the committee's chairman in the offices.

N. Korea unveils part of offices in charge of probe into Japanese

N. Korea unveils part of offices in charge of probe into Japanese

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Photo shows the door of a room on the second floor of the offices of North Korea's special investigation committee in Pyongyang on Oct. 29, 2014. North Korea invited Japanese reporters to the hallway on the second floor as officials from the two countries were holding talks on missing Japanese in the room of the committee's chairman in the offices.

School hallway remains ravaged since 2011 disaster

School hallway remains ravaged since 2011 disaster

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A hallway of the disaster-hit Kadowaki Elementary School in the coastal city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is shown to members of the media on Jan. 22, 2014. The school was ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and the ensuing tsunami and fire. The city government is considering of preserving the school as a monument to remember the disaster.