Thousands return to ruins of freezing Aleppo - U.N. official

By Lisa Barrington BEIRUT (Reuters) - Thousands of people are starting to return to formerly rebel-held east Aleppo despite freezing weather and destruction "beyond imagination", a top U.N. official told Reuters from the Syrian city. In the last couple of days around 2,200 families have returned to the Hanano housing district, said Sajjad Malik, country representative in Syria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). "People are coming out to east Aleppo to see their shops,