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A hostage situation on a train in the west of Switzerland on Thursday night ended with the suspect killed by the police and the hostages safely freed.

President Ramaphosa delivered a wide-ranging report back on the government's performance during his State of the Nation Address, but opposition parties were unimpressed.

An East London-based attorney charged with fraud and corruption appeared in the City’s Magistrate's Court on Thursday.

The UK sale of sets, costumes and props from the hit Netflix drama "The Crown" was due to end Thursday after several showpiece items smashed estimates and netted tens of thousands of pounds. Hundreds of items -- from a signed script to a sports car -- featured in the award-winning show went under the hammer in a two-day London auction that included a live sale Wednesday.

The lives of two young boys from Gqeberha have been cut short following a drowning that took place in the Salt Pans in Missionvale on Wednesday.

Rescuers used their bare hands and shovels to dig through mud on Thursday in a desperate search for survivors of a landslide in the Philippines as the death toll rose to 10, officials said. Two days after the rain-induced landslide hit the mountainous gold-mining village of Masara on southern Mindanao island, searchers were in a race against time and weather.

One of the men alleged to be involved in the killing of a Gqeberha teenager made a brief appearance in the Magistrates Court on Thursday.

A culinary battle over butter chicken has ended up in an Indian court as restaurant owners quibble over who invented the popular dish.

The Citrus Growers Association has welcomed an announcement that a leading global shipping company has offered its services to export fruit from the ports in Durban and Gqeberha.