Rushdie and Eavis lead honours
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Salman Rushdie, singer Emma Kirkby and Michael Eavis are among the figures honoured by the Queen.
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International Booker judges offer support to author Salman Rushdie as they honour this year's winner.
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Pakistan officially protested to Britain on Tuesday over a top award to Salman Rushdie that has sparked renewed anger among some Muslims over &quot;The Satanic Verses&quot; author.
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Pakistan&#39;s parliament unanimously condemned Britain&#39;s award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie and asked for the title to be withdrawn to avoid offending Muslims.
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Controversy over a knighthood for author Salman Rushdie escalated into a full-blown diplomatic row as Iran and Pakistan summoned Britain&#39;s ambassadors to protest, drawing a retort from London.
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British author Salman Rushdie and his  wife Padma Lakshmi, host of the television show &quot;Top Chef,&quot; are  getting divorced, just two weeks after he was awarded a British  knighthood, his spokeswoman said on Monday.
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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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British author Salman Rushdie is to divorce his fourth wife Padma Lakshmi, his literary agent said Monday, adding that she had asked for the split.
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LONDON -- Salman Rushdie , the author of "The Satanic Verses," who was forced into hiding for a decade after the leader of Iran's revolution ordered his assassination, has been made knight, Buckingham Palace announced yesterday.
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Pakistan's National Assembly condemns Britain's award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie.
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A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim  clerics has bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in  response to a British knighthood for the author Salman Rushdie.
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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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Britain said on Wednesday the award of a  state honor to author Salman Rushdie was based on literary  merit and was not meant to offend Muslims.
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British author Salman Rushdie and his wife Padma Lakshmi, host of the television show "Top Chef," are getting divorced, just two weeks after he was awarded a British knighthood, his spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Britain's knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie contributes to insulting Islam and may lead to terrorism, a Pakistani minister says.
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Pakistani Islamic scholars honoured Osama bin Laden in response to Britain&#39;s knighthood for Salman Rushdie, as a senior ruling party member said he would not hesitate to kill the novelist.
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Iran said on Sunday that a fatwa ordering the death of British writer Salman Rushdie issued by its revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini still stands after his knighthood by the queen.