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Former US president George H.W. Bush dies at 94

By  AFP

George Herbert Walker Bush – the upper-crust war hero-turned-oilman and diplomat who steered America through the end of the Cold War as president and led a political dynasty that saw his son win the White House – has died.

He was 94.

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