Muslims observe Ramadan across globe

A street vendor sells traditional bread during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Paris July 10, 2013. Muslims in France began their observance of this month on Wednesday. (REUTERS)
 

Street vendors sell traditional sweets and snacks, for the Iftar meal with which the day's fast is broken, on the first day of the Muslim month of Ramadan in Paris July 10, 2013. Muslims in France began their observance of this month on Wednesday. (REUTERS)
 

People queue to buy traditional sweets, for their Iftar meal with which they will break their fast, on the first day of the Muslim month of Ramadan in Paris July 10, 2013. Muslims in France began their observance of this month of abstinence on Wednesday. (REUTERS)
 

An Egyptian boy prays with supporters of the ousted Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi during Iftar, the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan, in Nasr City, a suburb of Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday July 10, 2013. After a week of violence and mass demonstrations, Egyptians were hoping that Wednesday's start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan will significantly calm the streets. The sunrise-to-sunset fast cuts down on daytime activity, although there are fears of unrest at night. (AP)

Yemeni man reads the Koran, Islam's holy book, on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan at the Grand Mosque in the old city of Sanaa on July 10, 2013. Tens of millions across the Muslim world fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious and charitable during the month, which ends with the eid holiday. (AFP)
 

The traditional Ramadan cannon is fired to mark sunset and the end of the first fasting day for Muslims observing Ramadan at the Muslim cemetery on Salah Eddein street in Jerusalem on July 10, 2013. Tens of millions across the Muslim world fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious and charitable during the month, which ends with the eid holiday. (AFP)

A Yemeni man applies Kohl to the eyes of a young boy, a local tradition carried out on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, at the Grand Mosque in the old city of Sanaa on July 10, 2013. Tens of millions across the Muslim world fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious and charitable during the month, which ends with the eid holiday. (AFP)
 

A niqab-clad woman walks outside the Al-Ahzar mosque in Cairo on July 10, 2013 at the end of the first fasting day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Tens of millions across the Muslim world fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious and charitable during the month, which ends with the eid holiday. (AFP)
 

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