The annual Muslim Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, which is attended by millions of pilgrims, has increasingly suffered from stampedes.

Needy people want to give too, but have few material goods to offer.

The night was now pitmirk; the wind soughed amid the head-stones and railings of the gentry, (for we must all die,) and the black corbies in the steeple-holes cackled and crawed in a fearsome manner.

You grew up under dictators who would have put people to the sword if they dared hand them their hats and invite them to buzz off.