He was loved and admired the world over, profiled in books and movies, and showered with awards and accolades. But even the the most public of personalities have little-known facts buried in their biographies.

Ellen Moshweu was just trying to go to church. A police officer shot her in the back on that November day in 1990.

"Sport has the power to change the world," Nelson Mandela once said -- and the South African prisoner-turned-president also provided perhaps the most eloquent supporting evidence for his claim.

Emoya Luxury Hotel in Bloemfontein, South Africa, has been all over the blogosphere in recent weeks. But the exposure might not the type that the "unique accommodation experience" wants.

A backlash against Mandela started within minutes of the news of his death. He is accused of being a Communist, a terorist and a racist.

Actress Alfre Woodard was an activist and a leading voice against apartheid the first time she met Nelson Mandela.

Nelson Mandela quotes flood our social media feeds. But what words inspired the great man himself? A book of Shakespeare smuggled in to prison and disguised in Hindu cards.

The anti-apartheid message was serious and heartfelt, but the song that alerted many around the world to the injustices of the South African regime could not have been more upbeat.

Nelson Mandela was many things to many people, but when I pause to consider his life, mostly I smile and think of his sense of humor, his dry wit and his remarkable ability to render someone speechless with a well-placed one-liner.

A Somali lawmaker was killed in a car bombing Friday morning near the presidential palace in the country's capital, a separate lawmaker said.

Nelson Mandela's funeral plans - a day by day breakdown