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The man suspected of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie last week in western New York will appear in court for arraignment on Thursday afternoon, the prosecutor said.

Teenager Munasar Muhidin says he fled Somalia in 2020 after Islamist militants killed most of his family and that his brother died trying to get to Europe.

Chautauqua Institution, the bucolic New York retreat where Salman Rushdie was attacked last week, has added new security measures, including requiring photo identification and passing through metal detectors prior to entering its venues.

The mother and her teenage son subdued the man when he tried to run away, and kept him restrained until deputies arrived.

The CDC says oysters don't look, taste or smell different if they contain the Vibrio bacterium.

The 911 call was made by a mischievous monkey from a zoo near Paso Robles, California.

The Cedars-Sinai study, which was published in JAMA Network Open, found that the majority of people who were infected with the Omicron variant didn't know they had the virus.

One of the witnesses was "shaken up" by the incident, which she said "was very traumatizing for her," police said.

The young pilot was "visibly upset" after the aircraft had to be diverted to another airport for landing.

The woman flagged them for help and robbed them at gunpoint.

"I don't like the person. I don't think he's a very good person," the accused stabber said. "I don't like him. I don't like him very much."

Kelly Simpson, a high school teacher in Florida was arrested on charges of interfering with the custody of a minor.

The notorious internet star has said women should not drive and that he would violently assault a woman if she accused him of cheating.

Torrential rain slammed the west and north of New Zealand's South Island for a third straight day on Thursday, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes and triggering road and school closures and land slips.

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 as the nearly six-month war grinds on without let-up.

For the best views, areas with less pollution and clear skies are recommended.

The city alerted its residents to conserve water to avoid shortages in case the power outages take longer to resolve.

Europe's attempts to wean itself off Russian gas have given Algeria a shot in the arm.

A team of hackers from two North American universities won the "Capture the Flag" championship, a contest seen as the "Olympics of hacking," which draws together some of the world's best in the field.

Alaska State Troopers said the missing girl was expected to be with 51-year-old Steven Narron.

A Hong Kong court lifted restrictions on Thursday on reporting pre-trial proceedings of a landmark national security case involving 47 pro-democracy campaigners that has dragged on for more than a year.

Results of whole genome sequencing suggests the patients got sick from the same food.

On Taiwan's windswept Matsu islands, close to China's coast, one topic has been driving conversations in recent days: prospects of an invasion by China since it began military exercises in response to visits to Taiwan by U.S.

A federal judge on Wednesday reinstated a decades-old North Carolina ban on abortions performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy, citing the U.S.

A Nepali mother of two, Parwati Sunar finds herself attending the same school as her son after returning to an education system she fled at the age of 15, when she eloped with a man seven years her senior.

The U.S. Justice Department should consider releasing at least some of the evidence it used to justify searching former President Donald Trump's Florida home last week, Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday.

Danny Clinch has photographed or filmed many of the most famous musicians of modern times - and his decades of work are on display in Asbury Park, the New Jersey beach town made famous by Bruce Springsteen.

A Texas school district is being called out for its review and potential removal process of many popular and important books.

South Carolina's highest court on Wednesday blocked enforcement of a state law banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy while it considers a challenge to the law by a Planned Parenthood affiliate and other abortion providers.