BBC News with Julie Candler
Members of Nelson Mandela's family are holding an overnight vigil in the South African village of Qunu on the eve of his funeral.Mr.Mandela's coffin was handed to the family after being transported in a huge funeral cortege through crowds gathered the roadside,up to 5,000 guests are expected to attend the funeral,but only 400 will be allowed to the grave site.Mike Wooldridge reports.
Nelson Mandela came home today after final ceremony would send off from an airbase in Pretoria where his body had been lying in state.The military plane that brought him here to the town of Umtata was received with formal ceremony too.But as a hearse containing Nelson Mandela's coffin draped in a South African flag sat off the Quru where the funeral would take place,the people of the eastern Cape took over to give him their symbol,a farewell for the local herds boy who fought a party and became president,and who they saw as their own.
A spokesman for Archibishop Desmond Tutu has told the BBC that he will be attending Nelson Mandela's funeral after all.His representative said he will be travelling to Quru early on Sunday in time for the event.Earlier Desmond Tutu said he had not been invited.
China has become only the third country to land a spacecraft on the moon.The Chang'e-3 module touched down watched by millions of people on TV is the first moon land in early 40 years.Damian Grammaticas reports.
Mission control's watched as a quarter of a million miles away,China's lunar land began its descend.China's state television broadcast live coverage using computer generated images,they said tracks the Chang'e-3's exact movement,the animations at least showed the perfect soft land.Early,two countries have achieved the similar lunar landing before:United States and what was then the Soviet Union,both were super powers.On Sunday,a robotic rover began to explore the moon and look for minerals China could one day exploit.
A construction worker in Brazil has died after falling from roof of a stadium being built for next year's football World Cup.The man was working at the Manaus' ground in the Amazon jungle Here's Leonardo Rocha.
Marcleudo de Melo Ferreira fell from a height of 35 meters and died of his injuries in hospital.The circumstances of the accident are not clear.He's the 15th construction worker to die at then used being built for next year's World Cup.Building sites in Brazil have a bad safety record and given the scale of the work being undertaken,the number of casualties is not unexpected,but this is the further setback for the Brazilian authorities.Six of the twelve stadiums that will be used for the tournament are not ready yet.
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Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Ukrainian capital Kiev to show support for President Victor Yanukavych who's being under pressure for refusing to sign a deal on closer integration with the European Union.Riot police separated his supporters from crowds of anti-government protesters.Early,Mr.Yanukovych has suspended his deputy security chief and the mayor of Kiev for their alleged involvement in police violence against pro-EU protesters.
Four people have been killed in a bomb blast on a bus in the Kenyan capital Nairobi,thirty-six people were injured.The roof of the vehicle was ripped off by the blast,as it was heading to the city center from northern suburb of Eastleigh,home to thousands of ethnic Somalis.Benson Kibui is the Nairobi county police commander.
According to the investigation,initial investigation is that somebody might have entered in this minibus with an explosive,aid of that person,blew himself or herself or the other angle that we are looking to earth is that on an idea was planned by those people we are looking for.
Tunisian politicians have agreed on a new Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa after difficult negotiations between the ruling Islamist Ennahda party and the opposition.Mr.Mehdi will head a caretaker government into elections next year.Deployment is part of the deal that would see the moderate Islamists hand over power to end the political crisis caused by the assassination in July of a well known opposition politician.
The President of the Central African Republic Michael Djotodia says he's prepared to talk to christian militias involved in sectarian violence across the country.He said they were not enemies but brothers.The Central African Republic has fallen into chaos since rebels overthrew the previous president in March.