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President Barack Obama, battered by weeks of turmoil over the malfunctioning HealthCare.Gov website, turned to a fresh item on his agenda on Saturday as he pressured Republicans in Congress to extend benefits for jobless Americans.

This combination of 2013 file photos shows, from left, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi; Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls, and Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

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IN the living room of his 17th Century manor house near Swindon Joel Joffe blinked back a tear, took another sip of Dom Perignon and declared, with pride and emotion: "I have been waiting more than 25 years for this."

In this March 1997 photo, South African President Nelson Mandela, left, shows the way to Britain's Princess Diana in Cape Town, South Africa, where they discussed the threat of AIDS in the country.

Anti-apartheid campaigners paid tribute to the man they spent decades trying to free at a Nelson Mandela vigil in central London.

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Former President George W. Bush will join President Barack Obama on a trip to South Africa to attend a memorial for Nelson Mandela.

First he pointed his cellphone camera at a group of children chanting Nelson Mandela's name as they waved posters of the anti-apartheid champion.

Christian civilians fled by the thousands to the airport guarded by French forces in this chaotic capital Friday as the mostly Muslim armed fighters who have ruled the country since March hunted door-to-door for their enemies and the death toll from inter-communal violence increased to 280 people.

Nelson Mandela smiles as he watches the coronation ceremony of Bafokeng's King Leruo Tshekedi Molotlegi at a sports stadium in Phokeng, 120 UNDATED Wisconsinites are joining the rest of the world in mourning the death of Nelson Mandela.

The former MP for Tottenham Bernie Grant with Nelson Mandela at Oliver Tambo's house in Muswell Hill back in 1990.

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Outside his old house on Vilakazi Street, Soweto, people gathered in large numbers to mourn the loss of their Madiba, his Xhosa clan name.

Mandela "was a kind of person that you were so in awe of until you were almost stymied in your ability to speak with him on an ordinary level," she said in an interview this summer.

The man dubbed the Unofficial President of the World could bring adoring crowds out onto the streets like no-one else on the planet.

A woman walks past a painting with the face of former South African president Nelson Mandela, central, in a street that sells African style art to tourist in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013.

Protestors burn cardboard and refuse as they demonstrate against a lack of housing and other services outside provincial government buildings in central Cape Town, October 30, 2013.

The South African Cabinet on Thursday ordered that an inter-ministerial task team report on the funding of controversial security upgrades to President Jacob Zuma 's private home be released to the public.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend the European premiere of the highly anticipated film Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom.