The Sudanese president has arrived in Saudi Arabia for a Muslim pilgrimage that will take him to Islam’s holy city of Mecca.

Thousands of buses and cars streamed out of the holy city of Mecca on Thursday as nearly 3 million pilgrims ended their hajj pilgrimage _ a journey of faith that for many Muslims is a lifelong dream.

On foot and on the roofs of overflowing buses, Muslims poured into the holy city of Mecca for a final day of the hajj on Wednesday, many of them saying they felt reborn and cleansed of sin as they completed the annual pilgrimage.

Nearly 3 million Muslim pilgrims from about 100 countries have converged in a valley just outside the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia as they began the 5-day hajj pilgrimage.

Mohammed Habboush and his wife Ikram wanted so badly to make the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca from their Gaza home that they sold her gold jewelry to pay for the trip.

Zeinab Chami planned to save money from her part-time job and get a little more from her family. But the 24-year-old graduate student ultimately couldn’t round up enough to pay for a trip to Mecca.

Olympic organizers issued detailed design rules for the 2012 London games Wednesday, including a mandate that at least some toilets in the Olympic park do not face the holy Islamic city of Mecca.

Sixty people who had to leave their homes after a train derailment pumped toxic fumes into the air earlier this week were allowed to return on Friday.Hazardous material crews had neutralized and removed most of the soil contaminated when a 65-car train...

Residents who were evacuated after a freight train derailed and leaked toxic fumes into the air could return to their homes as early as Wednesday, authorities said. Crews continued to carefully clean up the mess.The Union Pacific train derailed Monday...

A freight train derailed in the Southern California desert and two tanker cars full of chemicals caught fire, sending up a cloud of fumes and forcing home evacuations, authorities said.No one was injured when 28 of the Union Pacific train’s cars...