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Leaders from around the world will pay tribute at Tuesday's memorial service for Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who died last week at the age of 95.

A wall of photos at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Islamabad Monday. He will meet with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the first visit to Pakistan by the top Pentagon official in several years.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks on the telephone.

Internally displaced people in the Central African Republic.

UNICEF has joined the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners to launch a huge immunization campaign against polio in Syria.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he believes Israel and the Palestinians are closer to a peace agreement than they have been in years at the end of a three-day trip to the region.

A suicide bomber and gunmen attacked the heavily guarded defense ministry compound in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, killing 52 people.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in South Korea amid tensions over China's new Air Defense Identification Zone, or ADIZ.

The spokesman for South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, or ANC, says the country owes its prosperity, peace and stability to former president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.