A Spanish retired teacher who converted to Islam rode more than 6,000 kilometers on horseback from Andalusia to Mecca, fulfilling a decades-old promise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muslim pilgrims pray on the Mount of Arafat, outside the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Muslim pilgrims from around the world ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia has begun. It’s required once in a lifetime by every Muslim who can afford it and is physically able to make it. The ...

Four years ago, Osama bin Laden's relatives, worried about his ill health, tried to use the pilgrimage as a cover to visit the Saudi-born terrorist while he was holed up in Afghanistan, says a former ...

Millions of Muslims from all over the world have converged on Mecca in Saudi Arabia to partake in Islam's annual Hajj pilgrimage, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. In the coming ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Hajj, the world’s largest annual pilgrimage, begins today in ...

For two former Washington State University football players-turned NFL successes, the long frustrating wait came in the traffic leaving a stadium. “I’ve been at stadium let-outs, you know when you sit ...

Somewhere over Canada, locked in an airplane bathroom with my mom, I realized that I may be in way over my head. We were seated just two rows behind the business-class restrooms, but we needed ...