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The pilgrimage is an obligatory act of worship that followers of Islam owe to God once in their lifetime.

The airport closure began early Friday, causing nearly 450 flights to be cancelled and affecting thousands of travelers.

IBTimes UK can now reveal the winners of the photography competition we ran in conjunction with EyeEm, using machine learning and neural networks to pick the winners.

People burn incense at temples to pray for good health and fortune and flock to temple fairs to watch dragon dances and Chinese opera.

We look at craters that have suddenly opened up around the world.

Donald Trump is a typical Fire Dog: hot-tempered, talkative and argumentative. Chinese astrologers predict his second year in office will be even more tempestuous than his first.

Ashbourne is home to one of Britain's oldest and bloodiest sporting traditions: the Royal Shrovetide Football Match, played every year on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday.

"That looks bad, plane and simple," Google engineer Erik Haddad tweeted.

Investigators believe the incident could have been caused by iced over speed sensors which fed the wrong reading to the pilots.

This most important of Hindu festivals falls on Tuesday 13 through to Wednesday 14 February 2018.

German study finds red-fronted lemurs from Madagascar can differentiate between species.

Southwestern Airlines flight was carrying 139 passengers when it had to be evacuated at John Wayne Airport in Santa Monica.

Behind the ostrich feathers and sequins, the parades tackle serious matters such as crime, corruption, drugs, poverty and intolerance towards the LGBT community.

A panorama photograph of motorbikes in a World War Two shipwreck in the Red Sea has won Underwater Photographer of the Year 2018.

Passenger at Auckland Airport went for a cigarette break while at the gate and bypassed security upon returning.

Germany celebrates its annual Rose Monday carnival in traditional fashion: with floats featuring huge, unflattering puppets of politicians.

Teams throw 500,000 kilograms of oranges at each other as the northern Italian town of Ivrea marks the start of carnival season.

Seven of Rio de Janeiro's elite samba schools danced through the specially-built Sambadrome on the first night of the city's famous Carnival parades.

Eurostar has announced a direct line between London and Amsterdam opening in April, that will leave the cities less than four hours apart.

People living along the California coast are being treated to a living light show as tiny glowing phytoplankton light up the waves at Big Sur.

A passenger jet carrying more than 270 people was forced into a 30,000ft emergency descent after a failure in cabin pressure, a report has found.

Escape to somewhere exotic and tropical this winter: the 23rd annual orchid festival at Kew Gardens in southwest London.

The spectacular costumes – covered in feathers, sequins and jewels – can be more than 5m high and weigh over 80kg.

In pictures: The most exciting cars on show at Retromobile 2018, including the Ferrari FXX, a stunning 1938 Bugatti and a pristine Ferrari 250GT Cabriolet.

Photos show buildings in Hualien leaning at sharp angles, their lowest floors crushed into mangled heaps of concrete, shattered glass and bent iron beams.

Britain is 10th most congested country in the world as fed-up drivers spend average of 31 hours a year in slow or unmoving traffic.

The Alps Ski Resort was one of South Korea's first winter sports destinations, attracting tens of thousands of skiers every year, until it abruptly shut in 2006.

The Berlin Wall has now been dismantled for as long as it stood - 28 years, two months and 26 days, or 10,316 days in total.

The world's largest annual migration is underway as hundreds of millions of Chinese people head back home to celebrate the Lunar New Year with their families.