Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding under death threats from Iran because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday and airlifted to a hospital, police said.
Firefighters from across Europe backed by water-bombing aircraft came to France's rescue to battle a "monster" wildfire near France's wine-growing heartland of Bordeaux.
Najib Mohammadi had high hopes for life in the United States when he, his pregnant wife Susan and two small children left Afghanistan in July 2021. But for most of the past year, the family has lived in a cockroach-infested, one-bedroom apartment in Sacramento unable to find affordable housing in California's capital.
Kenyans crowded round radios and televisions on Thursday, increasingly anxious for news of who their next president might be, two days after voting in an election ended.
A four-day "extreme heat" warning came into force in parts of England and Wales with temperatures poised to top 35 Celsius in another heatwave that could cause wildfires and pressure water supplies and transport services.