On a visit to Jaipur, India, Oprah Winfrey called the country "the greatest show on Earth" in an interview with CNN sister network CNN-IBN.
World famous author Salman Rushdie canceled his trip to India due to an assassination threat. CNN's Sara Sidner reports.
Author Salman Rushdie now believes police lied to him about a threat to his life to keep him away from India's largest literary festival.
A quarter century after its publication, "The Satanic Verses" continues to hound celebrated author Salman Rushdie.
"My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends," wrote Christopher Hitchens in June before his death Friday from complications of esophageal cancer at the age of 62.
On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg break down the big news from Facebook. Namely, porn.
Need more evidence that Facebook's real-name-only policy has its flaws? Well, here you go:
Ivan Watson reports on the first fair and free elections of this year's popular upheaval in the Arab world.
Yale University announced this month that it would close an institute dedicated to the study of anti-Semitism, the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism. In the wake of controversy over that decision, Yale has now announced that it will open a new center dedicated to the same subject.
As a man whose vision of paradise is "some sort of library," Ismail Serageldin must sometimes feel like he works amid the Garden of Eden.
An Irish atheist group has published a series of quotations on religion in an attempt to challenge a blasphemy law that went into effect on New Year's Day.
The Top Chef hostess is growing in more ways than one
Many moons ago, in one of the more memorable sports movies of all time, Rocky Balboa was warned by his crusty trainer to lay off the ladies if he wanted to win his big bout with Apollo Creed. "Women weaken legs!" hissed the venerable Mickey, who was played by the marvelously wizened Burgess Meredith.
Mir Hossein Moussavi, whose apparent defeat in Iran's presidential election has sparked unprecedented demonstrations against the regime, is an unlikely challenger to the country's populist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He's been labeled by many as the "reformist," a man who can take Iran beyond the truculent anti-Western rhetoric of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
CNN's Anna Coren talks to Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed victory.
"I hope the book is damned good because it might be the last one he writes."
Aravind Adiga, a former writer for TIME who wrote about issues in India, has won the prestigious Man Booker prize for his first novel
In AIDS Sutra, sixteen of the world's best-known Indian writers investigate the country's AIDS problem
A historical novel about the prophet Muhammad and his child bride that was pulled by Random House over concerns it would anger Muslims will be printed by another German publisher
Author Salman Rushdie talks to CNN's Reggie Aqui about his new book "The Enchantress of Florence."
In Salman Rushdie's new novel, "The Enchantress of Florence," the exasperated Mughal emperor Akbar the Great agrees to let a mysterious Florentine adventurer, Mogor dell'Amore, finish a tale. But as the troublesome Mogor prepares to continue, Akbar says with a touch of venom: "A curse on all storytellers. And a pox on your children, too."
Salman Rushdie's 1981
novel "Midnight's Children" was named Thursday as the
greatest-ever winner of Britain's most prestigious literary
award
Queen Elizabeth II conferred a knighthood on "The Satanic
Verses" author Salman Rushdie on Wednesday, a year after the
announcement of the knighthood provoked protests from the Muslim
world
The New York City Opera has commissioned an opera based on Brokeback Mountain, the 1997 short story that became the basis for a 2005 movie
Rick Cranford of Seattle is my E-mailer of the Week for sending me back to my tape for something I'd originally overlooked. Rick points out that on the play that Ricky Williams was injured Monday night, OLB Lawrence Timmons, subbing for Clark Haggans, came down on Williams' back with his cleated shoe. He said it looked deliberate. He was surprised that neither the announcing crew nor Sports Illustrated's game notes made any mention of the play.
It was reported this week that the Dutch government are to withdraw their round-the-clock protection for Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- the former Dutch MP and outspoken critic of Islam -- if she remains in the United States. It is the latest in a long line of controversies that have punctuated the life of the Somali-born activist.
Forget soccer, the boggy British city of Manchester is hoping to be known worldwide for something completely different -- an international arts fair
The 3-year marriage of author Salman Rushdie and TV's Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi has ended, according to his rep.
So what is the prize all about?
British author Salman Rushdie on Thursday called for a reform movement that would move Islam into the "modern age" to combat jihadists and closed Muslim communities in the West that produce disaffected youths wielding "lethal rucksacks."
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