The umrah - which, unlike the hajj, can be undertaken at any time of year - draws millions of Muslim pilgrims to Saudi Arabia every year (some of whom are pictured in Mecca today).

Police have launched a manhunt for a man linked to one of the most notorious crime families in the country. 

Ricardo 'Rick' Barbaro is on the run after police named him as a suspect in the death of his girlfriend, 26-year-old Ellie Price. Her body was found in a South Melbourne townhouse on Monday.

Ricardo 'Rick' Barbaro is on the run after police named him as a suspect in the death of his girlfriend Ellie Price.

Filming of the eighth season of The Bachelor Australia, starring Locklan 'Locky' Gilbert, has been suspended. 

Police arrested Justin Wesley Leverett (pictured), 37, who is accused of punching another man's eyeball out of its socket and then punching the exposed eyeball, causing it to explode.

The English top flight will not resume until April 30 at the earliest due to COVID-19, with Anwar El Ghazi's Aston Villa fighting to avoid relegation from the top flight. He is struggling to adapt.

Filming for Star Wars and Jurassic World is said to have been temporarliy suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Northern Irishman Rory Mcilroy showed off a few of his trademark moves including keepy-ups on his club before smashing the ball into the trees.

Theresa May is holding face-to-face talks with Vladimir Putin in Osaka, Japan in an attempt to thaw relations between Russia and Britain as she prepares to quit as PM next month.

Putin's decree released on Wednesday formalizes Russia's departure from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty with the United States following Washington's withdrawal.

Volodymyr Tsemakh, an alleged separatist in the area where the Malaysian Airlines jet was shot down in 2014, was freed by a Kiev appeals court today pending further investigation.

Pinkett Smith and Tupac were friends dating back to their days as young students at Baltimore School For The Arts.

BBC's announced that filming has been suspended and it will cut it's weekly number of episodes, but despite the move the soap will effectively run out of episodes in weeks.

The set of Coronation Street appeared eerily-quiet on Monday, after ITV announced production on the long-running soap was suspended from this week due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Felix Schroer died after a two-month illness, which his sister reveals on Twitter he'd suspected was coronavirus, amid the ongoing pandemic.

The actor, 32, who plays David Platt, filmed a rigorous action sequence with a gang of thugs in a park for his last day on location for the foreseeable future.

While posing boldly for cameras, he sparked up the roll-up cigarette and put on a typically trendy display just hours after walking the red carpet with Rihanna

They might be teammates but it's every man and woman for himself on Reno Rumble.

As of Sunday night, most clubs were still gathering their players for training on Monday morning, despite the impending news.

Premiership Rugby are desperate to finish the current suspended season before it starts the next, which will put pressure on the 2021 Lions tour.

By Mfuneko ToyanaJOHANNESBURG, May 9 (Reuters) - South Africa's central bank has temporarily prohibited the use of debt issued by the Land Bank as...

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Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert claimed Democrats have blocked witnesses who might undercut their theories. He named seven during a hearing, including a man widely thought to be the whistle-blower.

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NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio unveiled the controversial scheme on Saturday, urging New Yorkers to text 311 to report anyone violating the state's social distancing rules or stay-at-home orders

Beatriz Haddad-Maia failed a urine test following a WTA Tour event in Croatia in June but was still able to play at Wimbledon, where she earned £72,000 in prize money.

The prospect of Russian track and field athletes taking part in the Tokyo Olympics are looking slimmer after the president of the country's athletics federation was charged on Thursday.

Russia's reinstatement process has been suspended by the World Athletics Council following fresh anti-doping charges against senior officials. The RusAF has been banned since 2015.

Two-time London marathon winner Kenyan Wilson Kipsang has been provisionally suspended for whereabouts failures and tampering with samples, the Athletics Integrity Unit revealed.

Barnsley have suspended Bambo Diaby while the FA investigate an alleged anti-doping violation by the defender. The 22-year-old is believed to have been tested after a 3-2 defeat at Blackburn last November.

Kasich canceled a scheduled campaign stop near Washington, D.C. on Wednesday and held an Ohio press conference where he ended his presidential campaign.

Figures released by mayor Sadiq Khan showed 97 people suspected of murder were freed without conditions out of a total of 284 between April 2017 to March this year.

Transport for London will temporarily suspend all road user charging schemes from Monday until further notice, to help critical workers move around the capital during the coronavirus crisis.

The North Korean mass games are a spectacle of gymnastic synchronisation believed to be the world's 'biggest human performance' held at Rungrado, reportedly the world's biggest stadium.

The magnitude 1.3 quake took place in the Chinese city of Hunchun at 19:38pm local time today with a focal depth of zero metres, reported China seismic network.

The North Korean citizen returned from China before being tested positive for the deadly virus, according to local media. A woman from China has taken ill at Copenhagen airport, Denmark.

Cameron Smith has called for the NRL to be suspended for a few weeks, claiming he and his Melbourne teammates are concerned for their families' health.

Smith, 36, said he along with his Melbourne Storm team mates were worried about the health of their families, adding the virus was 'bigger than rugby league'.

The NRL has suspended the rest of the season as the coronavirus pandemic continues to shutdown businesses and services across Australia.

The NRL suspended the rest of the season with immediate effect on Monday night, amid the coronavirus pandemic. 

The NRL season is set to resume on May 28 after the league was suspended due to COVID-19. 

Cerrone took some sickening blows from his opponent, taking several shoulder strikes, kicks and punches during the onslaught at T-Mobile Arena, leading UFC to medically suspend him.

Betting has been suspended on a return to Tottenham for Gareth Bale this month despite his agent suggesting that he is going nowhere. A flurry of bets have been placed in the last 24 hours.

JetBlue has announced it will suspend fees for change to all its flight bookings. It applies to flights booked to any destination from February 27 and March 11, for travel completed by June 1.

The TV Week Logie Awards rely on public votes to crown winners of the 12 'Most Popular' categories. And on Sunday fans were unhappy at polls closing earlier than expected.

The spread of coronavirus has brought the world of sport to its knees after multiple multi-million pound tournaments were postponed or cancelled as the death toll continues to rise.

With the Indian government extending the national lockdown until May 3, tournament organisers have informed the eight franchises that there is now no date in place for the 13th edition.

Father-of-two Mark Goodram, 36, from Bolton, claims to have bought the winning scratchcard from a Waitrose supermarket in Clapham, south London, in April last year.

Lyn Boyd, who was elected to Durham County Council by 919 votes in 2017, was reported to the Labour Party on February 2 over a whole host of material allegedly shared on her Facebook timeline.