Hadi Matar became withdrawn and isolated after a trip to the Middle East to visit his father in 2018, his mother says

Author Salman Rushdie has taken the stand in a New York courtroom to testify against the man charged with stabbing him in a frenzied knife attack.

Rushdie, 77, entered the courtroom dressed in a dark suit, white shirt, and grey tie. Rushdie’s right eyeglass lens was blackened out, concealing the eye penetrated by his attacker’s knife to the opti