EYEWITNESS
A Mystical Meeting
Thousands of Sufi devotees from all across India traveled on Monday to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti in the country’s northwest for the Urs festival, which marks the anniversary of his death. Sufism is a mystical form of Islam brought to South Asia from the Arabian peninsula. (AP Photos /Kevin Frayer)
Thousands of Sufi devotees from all across India traveled on Monday to the shrine of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti in the country’s northwest for the Urs festival, which marks the anniversary of his death. Sufism is a mystical form of Islam brought to South Asia from the Arabian peninsula. (AP Photos /Kevin Frayer)
A Sufi devotee uses a sharp object as he self-flagellates during a procession to the revered Muslim shrine of Ajmer Sharif during the Urs festival.
Keeping the Beat
Known as the birthplace of The Beatles, Mathew Street in Liverpool, England, is home to The Cavern Club, where the Fab Four played on numerous occasions as their career was emerging in 1961. The street is each year visited by thousands of tourists, who seek out attractions including a statue of John Lennon.
Known as the birthplace of The Beatles, Mathew Street in Liverpool, England, is home to The Cavern Club, where the Fab Four played on numerous occasions as their career was emerging in 1961. The street is each year visited by thousands of tourists, who seek out attractions including a statue of John Lennon.
A man holds a beer in front of a private area at the Cavern Club. (JG Photo/Jurnasyanto Sukarno)
Skylarking
Observers across the Asia-Pacific region and western United States were treated to a rare astronomical event on Sunday — an annular solar eclipse, in which the moon passed in front of the sun, leaving a brief golden ring of fire around its edges. (AP, AFP, Reuters Photos)
Observers across the Asia-Pacific region and western United States were treated to a rare astronomical event on Sunday — an annular solar eclipse, in which the moon passed in front of the sun, leaving a brief golden ring of fire around its edges. (AP, AFP, Reuters Photos)
Hikers watch the eclipse from Papago Park in Phoenix on Sunday.
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