Mandela Memorial Shifts to Processions, Lying in State

A procession carrying the body of late South African president Nelson Mandela moved through the streets of Pretoria on Wednesday, a day after a memorial service brought more than 60,000 people to honor the anti-apartheid leader. People lined the streets along the route where Mandela's remains were taken from a military hospital to the Union Buildings, the country's official seat of government. The site is the same place where he was sworn in as South Africa's first black...

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