DONALD TRUMP IS A PIG, SAYS ROGER WATERS

Rocker Roger Waters savaged Donald Trump with a pig balloon caricature as he vowed to make the most of his platform Sunday at a first-of-a-kind festival of rock elders.

The former Pink Floyd songwriter, who also renewed his longstanding criticism of Israel, closed out the first three-day weekend of Desert Trip which earlier brought the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney to a vast stage in California.

As Waters played “Pigs (Three Different Ones),” Pink Floyd’s 1977 assault on power mongers,

NO PLACE FOR TRUMP AS PRESIDENT OF AMERICA, SAYS KENNEDY

Donald Trump has no chance of winning the US presidential election, best-selling US writer Douglas Kennedy has told AFP — but if he did, he would be an “American Mussolini”.

“Trump has no chance,” said Kennedy of the Republican candidate in next month’s US presidential election.

But the fact that he was even in the running for the White House was indicative of “the rise of the far right all around the world,” he said in an interview at his home in Paris.

TRUMP APOLOGISES FOR LEWD TALK ABOUT WOMEN

Donald Trump, facing the deepest crisis of his presidential campaign, apologised early Saturday for crude and aggressively sexual remarks about women that he made in 2005, as criticism swelled from within his Republican Party.

The Republican nominee, in a shocking video released by The Washington Post Friday, was caught using vulgar language about groping and kissing women with impunity.

“I’ve said and done things I regret,” he said in a televised apology, believed to be the first of his 16-month White House campaign.

“Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong, and I apologise.”

CHECK OUT ADOLF HITLER'S FIRST AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The first biography of Adolf Hitler which presented him as “Germany’s saviour” and compared him to Jesus may have been written by the future dictator himself, a Scottish historian has claimed.

“Adolf Hitler: Sein Leben und seine Reden (Adolf Hitler: His Life and his Speeches)” was the first major profile of Hitler and appeared in 1923, authored by Victor von Koerber.

GERMANY GIVES NIGERIA N16 BILLION TO RESETTLE BOKO HARAM VICTIMS

The German government has announced a commitment of €47.6m (N16.23bn at the official exchange rate of N341.14 to one euro) as financial support to Nigeria for technical cooperation programmes and special project initiatives.

This was revealed by the Leader of a German delegation, Mrs. Renate von Boddien, during a meeting of the Nigeria-Germany Consultations on Development Cooperation, hosted by the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning in Abuja on Thursday.