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LGBT human rights leaders mourned the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela, calling the Nobel Peace Prize recipient a true global leader.

December 10, 2013 South African President Jacob Zuma waves as he arrives at the First National Bank Stadium, also known as Soccer City, ahead of the national memorial service for late former South African President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg December 10, 2013.

The man accused of faking sign interpretation while standing alongside world leaders like U.S. President Barack Obama at Nelson Mandela's memorial service said Thursday he hallucinated that angels were entering the stadium, suffers from schizophrenia and has been violent in the past.

For a few charmed hours on Wednesday, sunshine beamed down on the thousands of people who came out to offer their final respects to Nelson Mandela, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper and an entourage of Canadian dignitaries.

Peers, MPs and invited guests will take part in a commemorative service being staged in Westminster Hall to mark Nelson Mandela's death Politicians in Westminster will celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela today as a music-filled service to remember the anti-apartheid hero is held in Parliament.

He had no idea he would be in Nelson Mandela's home town when the world learned of Mandela's death.

In a statement issued early Wednesday, Harper calls the use of riot police against peaceful protesters in the capital Kyiv "undemocratic and excessive."

A man who appeared to provide sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandela's memorial service, attended by scores of heads of state, was a "fake," the national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa said on Wednesday.

Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks at the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela.

Chris Montes and his fellow volunteer rescuers first saw what looked to be children's footprints in the snow.

South Africans are expected to form a guard of honour for their former president this morning as the body of Nelson Mandela is transported through the capital to lie in state for the first of three days.

The world may be abuzz over President Barack Obama 's decision to shake the hand of Cuban leader Raul Castro at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, but the late South African president most certainly would have approved.

This looks like solid evidence that vice presidential offspring and Wyoming Senate candidate Liz Cheney's politics and personality were set in icy stone by the time she was college-age.

President Barack Obama talks with Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt during the memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela The two men were sat either side of Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and smiled as she took the snapshot of the three leaders at the FNB Stadium in Soweto.

President Obama remembered Nelson Mandela as a ''man who earned his place in history through struggle and shrewdness, persistence and faith" at a memorial in South Africa Tuesday, which, despite rainy weather, was attended by tens of thousands, including several Hollywooders.

By The Associated Press Another round of snow is in the forecast for the mid-Atlantic region, just in time for the morning commute.

South Africans were praised for the "dignified" way in which they have commemorated the death of Nelson Mandela as the memorial service for the anti-apartheid hero got under way.

Here's a selection of quotes from the speeches at the memorial service and from mourners attending the event compiled by The Associated Press: "He touched my heart, my soul, my life and those of the millions of South Africans," said Mandela family friend Andrew Mlangeni in his opening remarks at the memorial service.

So the prime minister of Canada and his wife and three former prime ministers get on a 30-year-old plane with two former governors general, four provincial or territorial premiers, the head of the Assembly of First Nations and the leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition.

In this file photo, Nelson Mandela stands on March 27, 1998 behind the bars of the former cell where he spent 18 of his 27 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island.