More than a million worshippers were set to join Islam's most important rite under a beating sun as the hajj pilgrimage ... Islam's holiest site -- the black cubic structure at the centre of ...

With temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), robed pilgrims slowly circled the Kaaba, the black cube at the ... themselves to the sun," Ibrahim bin Saleh Al-Mazni ...

More than a million pilgrims joined Islam's most important rite under a beating sun on Wednesday ... pilgrims slowly circled the Kaaba -- the black cube at the heart of Mecca's Grand Mosque ...