The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison. A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February. Rushdie did not return to court to the western…
Hadi Matar was convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie in 2022 (Image: AP) The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in…
Robert Kiyosaki, the author of the best-selling personal finance book Rich Dad Poor Dad, has issued a stark warning to Americans and global investors: the financial collapse he has long predicted is now underway.In a recent public statement shared on social media, Kiyosaki pointed to several alarming trends—including record-high credit card debt, surging US national…
Richard Bernstein, a former correspondent and critic for The New York Times whose deep knowledge of Asia and Europe illuminated reporting from Tiananmen Square to the Bastille, and who wrote things as he saw them in 10 books driven by unflinching intellectual curiosity, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 80. His death, in a…
The best-selling author Neil Gaiman and his estranged wife were sued by a New Zealand woman who is seeking millions of dollars for alleged sexual abuse and human trafficking while she worked for them as a nanny and babysitter, according to three lawsuits filed on Monday. Scarlett Pavlovich said Gaiman, author of The Sandman comic…
Acclaimed fantasy author Neil Gaiman is facing a fresh barrage of sexual assault allegations, with multiple women coming forward to detail their experiences in a New York magazine article titled ‘There Is No Safe Word’. Eight women have shared their accounts of alleged assault, coercion, or abuse by Gaiman, including Scarlett Pavlovich, who worked as…
Outgoing US President Joe Biden, during his Black Friday shopping, picked up a book on Israel and Palestine that raised eyebrows. The selected book describes the establishment of Israel as ‘colonialism’ that met with Palestinian ‘resistance’, a position that is viewed as contrary to that of the United States. Biden took The Hundred Years’ War…