The attack on author Salman Rushdie in New York and fears that a lack of water will harm UK harvests lead the papers.
Many of the papers lead with the onstage stabbing in New York of author Sir Salman Rushdie, who since a 1989 fatwa issued by the then-Iranian leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, has been subject to death threats over his novel The Satanic Verses. The Daily Mirror reports that the 75-year-old was stabbed several times by a "heavy-set attacker" and that a suspect was in custody on Friday night.
The Times reports Sir Salman was stabbed up to 15 times by a masked man dressed in black, prompting gasps and shouts from members of the 2,500-strong audience, and that he had been due to speak about the US being a haven for persecuted writers.The Daily Mail is the first newspaper to carry a front page picture of the man named by New York State Police as the suspected attacker, 24-year-old Hadi Matar.
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