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Author, who has previously faced death threats, was stabbed as he was about to deliver a lecture in western New York Photo: Salman Rushdie in Spain in October 2015. Photograph: Jl …

Author attacked at event in western New York as police identify the suspect in custody as Hadi Matar SIR Salman Rushdie remains on a ventilator after being attacked onstage at an event …

The Nobel laureate on discovering Baldwin, reciting Dickens’s Bleak House, and cringing at Flaubert Photo: Abdulrazak Gurnah … ‘JM Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians is the book I reread.’ Photograph: …

FORMER Equalities Minister, Nigerian-born Kemi Badenoch, has put herself forward as a candidate to become the next United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister, promising “limited government” and “a focus on the …

Photo: A woman selling tobacco in Nairobi. Cigarettes are often sold singly in many developing countries. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian By Rachel Kitonyo and Jeffrey Drope Smoking in the west is declining, so the …

THE Tottenham and England forward Chioma Ubogagu has publicly apologised after she was suspended from football for nine months for taking a banned substance. Ubogagu, 29, was found to have …

Caption: Moshe Ben Avraham, back centre, with fellow synagogue leaders and family members. Photograph: Emeke Obanor/The Guardian Until the 1990s, there were almost no Jews in Nigeria. Now thousands have …

(Left to right) Errollyn Walen, Omar Lye-Fook. Keith Waithe, Carleen Anderson and Eska. Illustration: Israel Vargas Years of struggle in the music business have motivated the current crop of over-50s Black …

*Wolfgang Beltracchi and his wife Helene sold fake paintings for millions before some inauthentic white paint led to their capture Photo: Wolfgang und Helene Beltracchi. ‘The more success we had …

Caption: ‘Other books went to town on the college, but they [the authors] were not banned.’ Dillibe Onyeama at home in Nigeria earlier this year. Photograph: Manny Jefferson/The Guardian Onyeama became …