George Bush Snr 👀 'groped 16-year-old girl' 👧 during 2003 photo op​

A woman has said she was 16 when former US President George HW Bush groped her buttocks as she posed for a photo with him and her mother. 
Rosyln Corrigan is the sixth woman to accuse Bush of inappropriately touching her in similar circumstances. She told Time Magazine she met Bush at a 2003 meeting of CIA officers in Texas, where her father worked. 
"My initial reaction was absolute horror," she said about the incident. "I was really, really confused. I was a child," Corrigan added. 
A Bush spokesman has previously acknowledged he has touched several women on the rear. 
On Monday, Jim McGrath, a spokesman forBush, told the BBC the 41st president, who once directed the CIA, "simply does not have it in his heart to knowingly cause anyone harm or distress, and he again apologises to anyone he may have offended during a photo op". 
Corrigan said the incident occurred as Bush was posing for a photo with her and her mother at the CIA office in The Woodlands, Texas, in November 2003. 
"As soon as the picture was being snapped on the one-two-three he dropped his hands from my waist down to my buttocks and gave it a nice, ripe squeeze, which would account for the fact that in the photograph my mouth is hanging wide open," Ms Corrigan said. 
Bush was 79 years old at the time.

​Lagos ‘policeman’ robs, stabs commuter, leaves ID card at scene​

Highway robberies may have taken a turn for the worse after a police sergeant, Williams Godwin, was allegedly involved in the robbery of a commuter identified only as Henry. ​PUNCH Metro​ learnt that the 41-year-old victim was on his way to work when he joined a cab along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway en route to Lagos Island.

He was said to have been attacked at gunpoint, as the assailants, which included Godwin, allegedly dispossessed him of his ATM card and N4,000. However, during the incident, the policeman’s ID card allegedly fell into the luggage of the victim, who was rushed to the Lagos State Accident and Emergency Centre at Toll gate, Ojota, where he was admitted and treated.

One of those who rescued Henry told _PUNCH Metro _that he was stabbed with a sharp object in the back.

​Spanish TV plays Exorcist tune under former Catalan leader❗​

The Spanish state broadcaster has been asked to explain why it ran the theme music to the 1973 horror film The Exorcist under a clip of the ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont.

It was played under Puigdemont's voice in RTVE's flagship current affairs programme Informe Semanal last Saturday.

At about four and a half minutes in to the programme, Puigdemont's clip came on, edited with Tubular Bells underneath.

One Twitter user sarcastically called the use of the clip "very subtle" while another said: "Mother of God, please tell me that's been edited."

Since the last government of Catalonia held a banned vote and declared the region independent, Spain's government has imposed direct rule, sacked the government, detained some Catalan leaders and called a snap election.

​Update: 🇮🇷Iran-🇮🇶Iraq 🌎Earthquake Kills at Least 430​

Rescuers dug with their bare hands Monday through the debris of buildings felled by an earthquake that killed more than 430 people in the border region of Iran and Iraq, with nearly all the casualties occurring in an area rebuilt after their ruinous 1980s war.

The magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck Sunday at 9:48 p.m. Iran time, just as people were going to bed. The worst damage appeared to be in the Kurdish town of Sarpol-e-Zahab in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah, which sits in the Zagros Mountains that divide the two countries.

Seismologist Abdul-Karim Abdullah Taqi, who runs the earthquake monitoring group at Iraq's Meteorological Department, said the main reason for the lower casualty figure in Iraq was the angle and direction of the fault line in this particular quake, as well as the nature of the Iraqi geological formations that could better absorb the shocks.

Wizkid crowned best African artist at AFRIMA​

Nigerian sensation Wizkid retained his best artist title at this year’s African Music Awards, as he carried off a clutch of prizes at a glitzy ceremony in Lagos. The 27-year-old Afrobeats star — real name Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun — beat his compatriot Davido and Fally Ipupa from the Democratic Republic of Congo to the top award.

He also won the best song category for “Come Closer” and the prize for best West African artist. AFRIMA 2017, now in its fourth year, is considered the equivalent of the US Grammys and was held on Sunday evening at a luxury hotel in Nigeria’s economic and entertainment hub.

The African Union-backed awards are designed to celebrate the continent’s booming music industry and were this year broadcast live to 84 countries on 109 different channels.

Pastors✝ Who Collect 💵Offerings Are Thieves!🔊: Reinhard Bonnke

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Celebrated German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, who is known for his great gospel crusades throughout Africa, has called out pastors who collect offerings from their congregants.

Although donating to missions or gospel crusades isn't wrong, some Pastors have abused their post and are demanding that people donate as a pre-condition for receiving a blessing from God.

Most of them have adapted to a more sophisticated - and super flamboyant - lifestyles and are giving politicians a run for their money. Well, evangelist Bonnke, who is among the few preachers who don't collect offerings during crusades, had this to say about rogue pastors: "Anyone who asks you to give offering for this crusade is a thief and should be reported immediately."