Worshippers line up against Jerusalem's 2000-year-old Western Wall. Millions of people from different faiths come here every year to pray - and leave notes to God. But all those notes take up space. So on Sunday, religious officials carried out a semi-annual house cleaning of Judaism's holiest site. They pried hundreds of thousands of notes from the crevices of the wall - enough to fill over 100 shopping bags. The tidying up means future worshippers - who include large numbers of Christians - will be able to leave notes, says the rabbi in charge of the wall. The structure is a remnant of the Second Temple, which was destroyed in 70 AD. It sits on ground considered holy by Jews, Christians and Muslims. Andrew Raven, Reuters
