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Members of Nelson Mandela's family are holding anovernight vigil in the South African village of Qunuon the eve of his funeral.Mr.Mandela's coffin washanded to the family after being transported in ahuge funeral cortege through crowds gathered the roadside,up to 5,000 guests are expectedto 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 inPretoria where his body had been lying in state.The military plane that brought him here to thetown of Umtata was received with formal ceremony too.But as a hearse containing NelsonMandela's coffin draped in a South African flag sat off the Quru where the funeral would takeplace,the people of the eastern Cape took over to give him their symbol,a farewell for the localherds 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 NelsonMandela's funeral after all.His representative said he will be travelling to Quru early on Sundayin 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-3module touched down watched by millions of people on TV is the first moon land in early 40years.Damian Grammaticas reports.

Mission control's watched as a quarter of a million miles away,China's lunar land began itsdescend.China's state television broadcast live coverage using computer generatedimages,they said tracks the Chang'e-3's exact movement,the animations at least showed theperfect soft land.Early,two countries have achieved the similar lunar landing before:UnitedStates and what was then the Soviet Union,both were super powers.On Sunday,a robotic roverbegan 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 nextyear's football World Cup.The man was working at the Manaus' ground in the Amazon jungleHere's Leonardo Rocha.

Marcleudo de Melo Ferreira fell from a height of 35 meters and died of his injuries inhospital.The circumstances of the accident are not clear.He's the 15th construction worker todie at then used being built for next year's World Cup.Building sites in Brazil have a bad safetyrecord and given the scale of the work being undertaken,the number of casualties is notunexpected,but this is the further setback for the Brazilian authorities.Six of the twelvestadiums 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 forPresident Victor Yanukavych who's being under pressure for refusing to sign a deal on closerintegration 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 themayor 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-sixpeople were injured.The roof of the vehicle was ripped off by the blast,as it was heading tothe city center from northern suburb of Eastleigh,home to thousands of ethnic Somalis.BensonKibui is the Nairobi county police commander.

According to the investigation,initial investigation is that somebody might have entered in thisminibus with an explosive,aid of that person,blew himself or herself or the other angle that weare 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 negotiationsbetween the ruling Islamist Ennahda party and the opposition.Mr.Mehdi will head a caretakergovernment into elections next year.Deployment is part of the deal that would see themoderate Islamists hand over power to end the political crisis caused by the assassination inJuly of a well known opposition politician.

The President of the Central African Republic Michael Djotodia says he's prepared to talk tochristian militias involved in sectarian violence across the country.He said they were notenemies but brothers.The Central African Republic has fallen into chaos since rebels overthrewthe previous president in March.

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