The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York reportedly said in an interview that he was surprised to learn the accomplished author had survived the attack.
Ukrainian forces said on Thursday they had beaten back a Russian attack in the southern region of Kherson, while the death toll from Russian shelling of Kharkiv city in Ukraine's northeast climbed to seven people.
Abortions in North Carolina are no longer legal after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, eroding protections in one of the South's few remaining safe havens for reproductive freedom.
Britain's inflation rate has risen to a new 40-year high of 10.1 per cent in July as climbing food prices tightened a cost-of-living squeeze fueled by soaring energy prices.
A former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee board member and three people from a clothing company that was a surprise sponsor of the 2020 Games were arrested on bribery suspicions Wednesday.
