Sri Lanka s death toll from Covid-19 climbed to 16,614 today after the Director General of Health Services confirmed 09 more Covid-19 related deaths in the country for yesterday (Aug 11). MORE..
Salman Rushdie, the author whose novel "The Satanic Verses" drew death threats from Iran s leader in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. MORE..