Celebrating Nelson Mandela - in pictures

A fan of Bafana Bafana, the South African soccer team, was one of hundreds of people who visited Nelson Mandela's house in Houghton, Johannesburg to leave flowers, candles and messages, and also to dance and sing songs from the struggle Photograph: Jordi Matas/Demotix/Corbis

Children walk past a mural depicting Nelson Mandela during different stages of his history in Soweto, Johannesburg Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

A large portrait of Yasser Arafat, the former Palestinian president, is placed next to a memorial for late South African President Nelson Mandela in an area of Jerusalem's Old City Photograph: Mahfouz Abu Turk/EPA

Children holding South African flags in a drum majors group march up Vilakazi Street on their way to pray at Nelson Mandela's old house after travelling all the way from Free State, in Soweto, Johannesburg Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

India Harris, 8 years old, and her sister Kitty, 5, stand in front of a Nelson Mandela wall mural shortly after laying bouquets of flowers for the late former South African president in Cape Town Photograph: Mark Wessels/Reuters

Lebanese students with South Africa flags and candles with the portraits of Mandela on their desks listen to a lecture on his life at their school, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon Photograph: Mohammad Zaatari/AP

Leila de Wet walks past a wall of flowers laid by mourners outside Mandela's home in Houghton, Johannesburg Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images

Manchester United players take part in the minute's applause in remembrance of Mandela prior to kickoff of their match against Newcastle United at Old Trafford Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images

Messages of support are seen on the massive wall of flowers and condolences offered by some of the thousands of mourners outside the house of the late South African president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg Photograph: Kim Ludbrook/EPA

South African artist John Adams, who says he feels driven to paint Nelson Mandela in return for opening up the educational opportunities that enabled him to become an artist, works on a speed-painting of Mandela in the street outside Mandela's old house in Soweto, Johannesburg Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

A man looks at the floral tributes left at the statue of Mandela at Parliament Square in London Photograph: Sang Tan/AP

A cow stands near a sand sculpture of Nelson Mandela made by few Indian students at Sangam, the confluence of the Rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati, in Allahabad, India Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP

Visitors watch a documentary video on the life of Nelson Mandela at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP

An activist walks with a poster of late South African president Nelson Mandela during a commemoration rally by the Communist party of India in Calcutta Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA

South Africans gather to pay respect and tribute to Mandela outside his house in Houghton, Johannesburg Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

FIFA President Sepp Blatter and President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, during the final draw for the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Bahia, Brazil Photograph: Marcus Brandt/Dpa/Corbis

Members of the public hold candles during a vigil in memory of the late Nelson Mandela in Montreal, Canada Photograph: Graham Hughes/AP

People hold a banner with the picture of Nelson Mandela on the Vieux-Port in Marseille, southern France Photograph: Bertrand Langlois/Afp/getty Images

The South African community in Berlin laid down flowers outside the South African embassy to mourn the passing of Nelson Mandela Photograph: Thorsten Strasas/Demotix/Corbis