Just after midnight on Friday, a 35-metre support vessel, based in Hout Bay, had caught ablaze south of Cape Point.
Police released footage of the moment a rescue helicopter found a missing three-year-old boy, with the news sparking joyous scenes of celebration.
In a startling story of survival, a woman has been pulled alive from the rubble of a factory collapse in Bangladesh which claimed the lives of over 1,000 people. The survivor, Reshma Begum clung to life by eating biscuits scrounged from the backpacks of her dead colleagues who lay nearby.