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an acute respiratory infection in 2011.
• Mandela spent 27 years in prison for fighting racist white rule. He became South Africa's first black president in 1994 and served one five-year term. He has since retired from public life.
• Mandela made his last public appearance in 2010. He's grown increasingly frail in recent years.
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Anti-virus founder says he wants to return to US, settle down to 'normal life'
• BACALAR, Mexico (AP) -- Software company founder John McAfee said Sunday he wants to return to the United States and "settle down to whatever normal life" he can.
• In a live-stream Internet broadcast from the Guatemalan detention center where he is fighting a government order that he be returned to Belize, the 67-year-old said "I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years."
• Police in neighboring Belize want to question McAfee in the fatal shooting of a U.S. expatriate who lived near his home on a Belizean island in November.
• The creator of the McAfee antivirus program again denied involvement in the killing during the Sunday Internet video hook-up, during which he answered what he said were reporters' questions.
• His comments were sometimes contradictory. McAfee is an acknowledged practical joker who has dabbled in yoga, ultra-light aircraft and the production of herbal medications.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Monday, Dec. 10, the 345th day of 2012. There are 21 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Dec. 10, 1962, "Lawrence of Arabia," David Lean's epic film starring Peter O'Toole as British military officer T.E. Lawrence, had its royal gala premiere in London, with Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, in attendance.
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