UNITED STATES: The White House has confirmed that US president Barack Obama will not attend Muhammad Ali's funeral, adding that he will be represented by the White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
LOUISVILLE: Actor Will Smith and former boxing world champion Lennox Lewis will serve as pallbearers together with six other people during Muhammad Ali's funeral Friday, a spokesman said.
ISLAMABAD: The Senate of Pakistan on Monday passed a condolence motion over the death of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and offered Fatiha for the heightening of his stages in hereafter, ARY News reported.
LOUISVILLE: The family of boxing legend Muhammad Ali on Sunday accompanied his body back to his hometown Louisville, ahead of a public funeral procession and service expected to draw huge crowds in honor of "The Greatest."
LOUISVILLE: The world is invited to the funeral of Muhammad Ali in his hometown on Friday where the boxing legend's life will be celebrated with a public funeral procession and memorial service, a family spokesman said.
Muhammad Ali, considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight champions, embraced Islam in 1964 and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. He termed his old alias Cassius Clay as his 'slave name'.
SCOTTSDALE: A public funeral procession and memorial service for boxing legend Muhammad Ali will take place in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky on Friday, a family spokesman said Saturday.
ISLAMABAD: British-Pakistani boxer Amir Khan paid tribute to legendary fighter Muhammad Ali Saturday, calling him the "people's champion" and saying Ali's life outside the ring had inspired him to help those in need.
PARIS: One of Muhammad Ali's greatest battles was not in the ring but against Parkinson's disease, which severely hampered his speech and motor skills in the last three decades of his life.
KINSHASA, DR CONGO: At the sound of Muhammad Ali's name Martino Kavuala, now a 63-year-old estate agent in Kinshasa, seems to light up as he recalls the "Rumble in the Jungle" back in 1974 which "held us spellbound".
LOS ANGELES: George Foreman no longer wonders why a devastating defeat at the hands of Muhammad Ali in the fabled Rumble in the Jungle of 1974 proved the catalyst for an enduring friendship.
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama paid tribute Saturday to late boxing great Muhammad Ali, as a towering champion "who fought for what was right" not just in the ring but outside it as well.
LOS ANGELES: Boxing icon Muhammad Ali, known simply as "The Greatest," captured the greatest victory of his career in 1974 by knocking out George Foreman to win the "Rumble in the Jungle."
LOS ANGELES: Cassius Clay had just beaten world champion Sonny Liston when he turned his wrath on the ringside reporters who had written him off as an underdog, shouting: "Eat your words!"