World leaders bowed and prayed Wednesday before the flag-draped casket containing the body of Nelson Mandela, having a final look at the anti-apartheid icon in the amphitheater where he was sworn in ...

PRETORIA, South Africa — World leaders and thousands of South Africans on Wednesday filed past the flag-draped casket containing the body of Nelson Mandela, having a final look at the anti-apartheid ...

Gayle King was among those invited by the Mandela family, and along with close family friend, Jerry Inzerillo, talks about the service More than 4,000 guests and dignitaries attended the funeral ...

Nelson Mandela was buried in his childhood village of Qunu on Sunday as tribal leaders clad in animal skins joined dignitaries in dark suits at the grave site overlooking the rolling green hills. As ...

The people who walked in a long line past the casket of Nelson Mandela today in Pretoria, South Africa, include NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton. She's been covering the funeral ceremonies for the former ...

Nelson Mandela, first President of a free South Africa, last of the great African liberators and an icon to all humanity, looks beautiful in death. He lies in a wooden casket with a glass cover over ...

Amid a solemn atmosphere, the body of Nelson Mandela lay in state Wednesday at an amphitheater in South Africa's capital of Pretoria, the exact spot where he was sworn in as the country's first black ...

PRETORIA, South Africa An estimated 100,000 South Africans lined up in Pretoria to view Nelson Mandela in his casket but about a third of the overwhelming crowd was sent away without being able to ...

QUNU, South Africa — Nelson Mandela came home Saturday. A hearse carrying Mandela’s body drove into his hometown in rural South Africa ahead of burial today, returning the country’s peacemaker to the ...

South Africa: Thousands of South Africans yesterday lined the streets in Pretoria to watch the casket bearing the remains of former South African President Nelson Mandela pass by. The casket was ...

Thousands filed past the casket of Nelson Mandela to pay their respects to the former South African president and anti-apartheid icon Thousands filed past the casket of Nelson Mandela to pay their ...