#British_travelers traveled from London to Saudi Arabia on their bikes in the hope that they would arrive in time for Mecca to perform Hajj.
The eight passengers will spend six weeks crossing through several countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Greece, and travel 2,000 miles.
A 26-year-old US court sentenced Robert Farmer to 16 years in prison and was barred from raising or caring for pets for 10 years after 18 cats were killed in San Jose, California.
Experts said they found one of the cats signs of sexual abuse. Farmer was found sleeping in his car and the body of a cat on the dashboard in the car and four bodies cut off in other parts of the car.
The cats were gone, and some were found in garbage cans.
A Canadian court sentenced a woman to eight and a half years in prison for convicting her of concealing the bodies of her six infants in a wardrobe.
The Canadian woman, Andrea Geishbrecht, 43, has faced six counts of concealing the body of a child in 2014. Staff at a storage company discovered decomposing corpses in her closet after she failed to pay the treasury rent.
An 18-year-old Tajik bride committed suicide with a fatal dose of vinegar, 40 days after her marriage.
The 24-year-old husband was accused of causing his wife, Rajabi Khurshid, to commit suicide amid allegations that he pressed her for virginity tests and then married another woman, where the results were not confirmed.
A 3-year-old Iraqi boy, an autistic patient, was killed by a knife in the bedroom of his family's apartment in the Irish capital. His mother, a doctor, was arrested by police.
The child, Omar Omran, was found dead with several stabs. His mother, Dr. Maha Abdel-Azim, was arrested by the police, although in the same incident she was subjected to similar stabbings, but she survived, in a stable condition.
"Grady Spencer" was injured, with burns covering about 25 - 35% of the bottom of his body. The Pennsylvania state police ordered his girlfriend Ann Sebeliak, 38, to be charged with attempted murder after entering into a personal dispute.
Spencer was taken to hospital for treatment after his parents, who lived in the same house, heard their son scream.