Sudirman Cup badminton championship in Australia
Photos from the Sudirman Cup badminton championship at Australia’s Gold Coast Sports Centre.
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Asaro Mud Men perform at Australian Museum
Asaro Mud Men from the Asaro Valley in Papua New Guinea’s eastern highlands perform, for the first time outside their home, their rituals for visitors at the Australian Museum in Sydney on September 29, 2016. The eerie show is traditionally intended to intimidate their enemies in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, with the men donning masks and white clay on their bodies and elongating their fingers with bamboo, they perform a dance with the warriors holding bows and arrows.
Australia lights up with Vivid Sydney
Vivid Sydney, an annual festival of lights, music and ideas, runs from May 27 to June 18.
Australia Day 2016
Australians celebrated Australia Day on Tuesday. The holiday marks the anniversary of the arrival and landing of the First Fleet of convict ships from Great Britain, and the raising of the Union Jack at Sydney Cove by Captain Arthur Phillip, on Jan 26, 1788. Day nine of the 2016 Australian Open also fell on Australia Day.
Occasionally smooth sailing at Sydney to Hobart yacht race
US Supermaxi yacht Comanche won line honors in Australia’s Sydney to Hobart, staging a stunning recovery from damage which had nearly ended its race.
“Santa Runs” across the globe
From Micendendorf, Germany to Sydney, Australia, and a few places in between, thousands dressed up like the jolly old elf to participate in annual “Santa Runs.”
Light festivals around the world
Baltimore is one of the latest world cities to be turned on to large-scale artistic light displays. The inaugural Light City Baltimore, modeled after the Vivid Sydney festival in Australia, is planned for seven days this spring. These photos of the Sydney festival and six others around the world offer a glimpse of the type of treatments the Inner Harbor and locations in five city neighborhoods might get.
‘Earth Trekkers’ family takes 13-month trip around the world
“87,000 miles. 44 airline flights. 396 days. 35 countries. 1 family.”
That would be the epic movie tagline for the Rivenbark family, of Howard County, who recently returned from a 13-month trip around the globe. The family —- consisting of mom Julie, dad Tim, Tyler, 12, and Kara, 10 — sold their house, and their cars; Julie quit her job, Tim took a leave of absence. And the kids did their homeschool work while on safari in Africa, in a hotel in Nepal or whenever they could find time.
The family kept a near-daily blog, which was fed by stunning photos from Julie and fun, educational videos from Tyler. A short documentary about the Rivenbark’s trip is below.
London duck lanes, Japanese chair races, European transit strikes | May 19
The day in photos from around the world.
Fuji Shibazakura Festival, Star Wars wax figures, Macau Tower ‘sky walk’ | May 12
The day in photos from around the world.