Nigerian pastor accused of rape asks judge to step down

South African judge Mandela Makaula has dismissed an application by the Nigerian pastor, Timothy Omotoso, who is accused of rape to recuse himself from the case.
Mr Omotoso's lawyer argued that the judge had shown some bias towards one of the witnesses, Cheryl Zondi.
South Africa is gripped by the rape trial of televangelist Pastor Omotoso taking place in the Port Elizabeth High Court and being broadcast live on television.
Mr Omotoso and his two co-accused are facing 63 charges which include rape, sexual assault and racketeering.
They have pleaded not guilty.
Through their lawyer, Peter Daubermann, they said that they would not receive a fair trial given the reaction by the public.
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Iwan reverses curse on Bulldog

Reggae/Dancehall artiste Iwan was filled with emotions when host of Drive Time on Joy FM demanded that he smokes a peace pipe with his former manager, Bulldog for the good of the industry.
The two have been at loggerheads ever since the artiste parted ways with Bullhaus Entertainment in 2011.
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Iwan reverses curse on Bulldog

Reggae/Dancehall artiste Iwan was filled with emotions when host of Drive Time on Joy FM demanded that he smokes a peace pipe with his former manager, Bulldog for the good of the industry.
The two have been at loggerheads ever since the artiste parted ways with Bullhaus Entertainment in 2011.
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Student points a gun at his teacher and forces her to change his grades (photos)

A high school student was caught on video threatening his teacher with a gun to change his poor grade and give him a passing grade.
In a video of the incident, which occurred in a school in Brazil, the boy is seen standing beside a female teacher, with a gun pointed at her.
There were other boys in the class giving him support. One was filming and can be heard offering words of encouragement in the background.
Another was seen making faces in front of the camera as their mate held their teacher at gunpoint.
Speaking Portuguese, the student is heard telling his teacher to "change his grade" while his mates laughed.
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Doctors extract 122 nails and other sharp objects from a patient’s stomach

This weekend, Ethiopian doctors extracted over a hundred iron nails and other sharp objects from the stomach of a patient in the capital, Addis Ababa.
Dawit Teare, a surgeon at St. Peter’s Specialised Hospital, said the 33-year-old patient suffers from mental illness and had apparently consumed the items, including 122 four inch (10 centimetre) nails, four pins, a toothpick and pieces of broken glass.
“The patient has been suffering from mental illness for the last 10 years and had stopped taking his medication two years ago, one probable reason he started consuming inanimate objects.
I’m guessing he consumed the objects with the help of water, however he is a lucky person that those sharp objects didn’t cut his stomach. That could have led to serious infections and even death” Dawit told AFP after the two-and-a-half hour operation.
The surgeon said that while he had dealt with other cases in which people with mental illness had swallowed multiple sharp objects, he had never encountered a case on this scale.
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