As the Muslim pilgrimage of Hajj kicks off in Saudi Arabia, the rest of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims aer celebrating the annual Eid al-Adha holiday.
But in some parts of the world, celebrating has its limits.
The effects of previous wars and devastation caused by natural dsiasters have given the people of these struggling countries less reason to rejoice because of their hardships.
Al Jazeera’s Clayton Swisher reports.
As rescue teams pull mangled bodies and injured people from debris, the scale of death, destruction and injury caused by a major earthquake in the Indonesian coastal city of Padang is beginning to emerge.
Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports on the city that is picking up the up the pieces after the devastation.
Indonesian rescuers have been battling to reach people trapped under rubble after a powerful earthquake in Padang, West Sumatra.
But their work has been hampered by a lack of heavy equipment to remove tonnes of concrete debris from collapsed buildings.
Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen witnesses a dramatic rescue attempt which highlights the challenges facing the dsiaster teams armed with onyl hammers.
A huge earthquake has brought death and destruction to the Indonesia island of Sumatra.
Footage from the town of Padang show how the 7.6 magnitude temblor flattened homes and hospitals leaving thousands of people trapped under the rubble.
Residents scrambled to put out fires caused by the quake while rescue workers struggled to reach the coastal town after access roads were cut by a landslide.
Bernard Smith reports.
Despite the recent death of Noordin Mohammed Top, the alleged masterminded of bombings in Bali and the Indonesian capital, authorities are still battling underground organisations seeking to attract young people to their violent ideologies.
One of the suicide bombers involved in the July attacks on two luxury hotels in Jakarta was Dani Dwee Per-mana, a 17-year-old boy, thought of by those who knew him as quiet, but friendly.
Nine people died in the Jakarta attacks and another 50 were injured.
Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen went to visit the famliy of the boy who was persuaded to carry a bomb into the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta.