World: Wax Figure of South African President Nelson Mandela

A visitor reads an obituary next to a wax figure of late former South African president Nelson Mandela at the i-City Red Carpet Wax Museum in Shah Alam, Malaysia. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95.

A visitor reads an obituary next to a wax figure of late former South African president Nelson Mandela at the Madame Tussauds museum in Tokyo.  Tens of thousands of grieving South Africans will sit side-by-side with presidents, priests, queens and sheiks at a memorial service for unifying global icon Nelson Mandela.