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Ljubljana – The Slovenian PEN Centre has joined writers, celebrities and politicians in the West in condeming yesterday’s attack on award-winning author Salman Rushdie at an onstage event in the US, which has left him with severe stab wounds in hospital.

“I can think of fewer nicer places in the world,” former poet laureate Sir John Betjeman once said of the island

Emre Şener is among the composers to take part in the '200 Pieces' project that will mark the bicentenary celebrations of the Royal Academy of Music in the U.K.

The Royal Academy of Music, one of the world's top five music schools, has commissioned 200 musicians to compose pieces to mark the occasion.

Berklee College of Music gave former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr an honorary doctorate degree in a special ceremony in Boston

Lewis Hamilton returned to social media following a lengthy silence that dates to last season's controversial Formula 1 finale.

Hamilton had dropped out of public sight after he was denied a record eighth championship in the December finale in Abu Dhabi. He re-emerged on Feb. 5 with a post that showed the seven-time champion smiling from what appears to be the Grand Canyon.

"The Beatles: Get Back," the eagerly awaited new Disney+ documentary from Peter Jackson, aims to dispel persistent myths about the Fab Four's breakup, offering a more positive take on their final months as a band.

The three-part series finds John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in January 1969, preparing for their first concert in more than two years.

A long-serving member of Parliament was stabbed to death on Oct. 15 during a meeting with constituents at a church in England, an attack that united Britain's fractious politicians in shock and sorrow. A 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene.

A Conservative MP in Britain has been stabbed several times while holding a church meeting in his constituency.

Shortly afterwards, 69-year-old David Amess died.

Police cordoned off the area. A helicopter is circling over the place.

It was Beijing's response to the sanctions it imposed on British lawmakers who spoke about human rights violations in China's Xinjiang province.
Speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, and Speaker of the House of Lords, John McFall, prevented the Chinese Ambassador from speaking in the British Parliament today, Reuters reports.

"One of my biggest dreams (along with flying around the world) is to become an astronaut."

Said 19-year-old Zara Rutherford, who embarked on an impressive adventure on Wednesday afternoon. The teenager flew from an airport in western Belgium for her solo trip around the world. It aims to cross 52 countries on five continents in the next two months or so.