Rushdie marital chapter comes to an end
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The three-year marriage of Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi has ended, their publicists said Monday. "Salman Rushdie has agreed to divorce his wife, Padma Lakshmi, because of her desire to end their marriage," his representative, Jin Auh, said in a statement. "He asks that the media respect his privacy at this difficult time."
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Comment is free: Priyamvada Gopal:  Rushdie's knighthood is a reward for abandoning the anti-establishment stance he once espoused.
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A prominent Iranian cleric said on Friday the fatwa death warrant against author Salman Rushdie issued by the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini in 1989 was "still alive" in the Islamic Republic.
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Ben Kingsley and his wife, Alexandra, have separated after 15 months of marriage, the actor's publicist said Wednesday.
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The last bloody exercise in the &quot;mosque-centered&quot; Sunni-Shiite conflict in Pakistan occurred yesterday during Friday prayer.
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The 8-year ordeal of Asif Ali Zardari, the jailed husband of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, ended Monday when the Supreme Court of Pakistan granted him bail in the last of the many corruption cases against him, says the South Asia Tribune.
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British novelist Salman Rushdie has squared off against feminist icon Germaine Greer, labeling her support for a group of Bengali film protesters as "philistine, sanctimonious, and disgraceful."
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Author Salman Rushdie, issued with a fatwa by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago, and former England cricketer Ian Botham were awarded knighthoods by Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday.
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Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards said Salman Rushdie still faced eventual execution, 16 years after revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini imposed a death sentence on the British novelist.
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Her death severs one of our last remaining links to the Golden Age Of Bollywood.
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Even while rumours of more impending splits between BollywoodÂs most high-profile couples gathers momentum, one more couple has folded up their tent of togetherness and gone their separate ways.
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Pakistan deplored on Monday Britain's decision to award a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" outraged many Muslims around the world.
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Angry Islamists protested against Britain&#39;s knighthood for Salman Rushdie Friday, as an Iranian cleric said the death sentence on the writer was still valid 18 years on.
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Author Salman Rushdie said on Monday he was "thrilled and humbled" to be awarded a British knighthood but he had no comment on anger in Iran and Pakistan where his book "The Satanic Verses" outraged many Muslims.
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Author Salman Rushdie and his model wife play down rumours of a split.
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Islamic hardliners in Pakistan burned an effigy of Britain&#39;s Queen Elizabeth as senators joined mounting calls for London to withdraw Salman Rushdie&#39;s knighthood.
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London - Salman Rushdie, the British novelist who faced a death sentence for writing The Satanic Verses, condemned the government for failing to protect a Sikh playwright who has been forced into hiding to escape death threats, in comments published on