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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon says it has acquired the global television rights to “The Lord of the Rings,” based on the fantasy novels by J.R.R. Tolkien, with a multi-season commitment.Set in Middle Earth, this TV series will explore new

NEW YORK (AP) — Peace never reigns in the pages of DC Comics. There’s always a world to be saving, a cataclysm to avert. The making of the DC superhero team-up film “Justice League” was hardly any more tranquil.Made in the

NEW YORK (AP) — Alec Baldwin has settled a lawsuit in which he accused a prominent New York City art dealer of fraud.The actor tells The New Yorker magazine gallery owner Mary Boone agreed to write him a “seven-figure check” to

Ohio’s prisons agency will give a condemned inmate a wedge-shaped pillow to help him breathe during his execution this week.The Department of Rehabilitation and Correction plans to provide the pillow for death row prisoner Alva Campbell on

The Port of Port Elizabeth's 2017/18 cruise season kicked off on Monday morning with the arrival of the port's first international cruise liner of the season.Phoenix Reisen's ALBATROS sailed into port carrying 830 European and South

The South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) has condemned the attack on a Johannesburg metro police in Hillbrow, the union said on Monday.“The officer, along with his colleagues, had impounded a vehicle belonging to one of the church

Residents of Letlhabile near Brits in South Africa’s North West province took over the control of a local radio station on Monday, demanding that the board disband and the station manager resign.They wanted Letlhabile Community Radio (LCR

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality said it was working against the clock to find additional sources of water to supplement the current deteriorating supply due to the persistent drought.Executive mayor, Athol Trollip, said in a statement on Monday that

Former Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Mduduzi Manana, has been sentenced to a fine of R100 000 or 12 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to assaulting two women in a Johannesburg nightclub.He was sentenced today by Magistrate Ramsammy