SYDNEY (Reuters) – Among the thousands of people who flocked to Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday evening, some were seeking relief from the steamy weather while others joined a local Jewish group to celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah, or festival of light. Advertisements promised a petting farm, face painting and donuts and proclaimed the goal was to “fill Bondi with joy and light.”
PUERTO ASIS, Colombia (AP) – Jani Silva sits inside the wooden house she built on the banks of Colombia’s Putumayo River—a home she has not slept in for more than eight years.