KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 — A vegetable seller who stabbed his former employer on the head with a machete in protest over the latter’s action in slapping him for being rude to a colleague was today sentenced to two years in prison by the Sessions Court here, for voluntarily causing grievous hurt.

NEW YORK, Aug 13 — Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday and airlifted to a hospital, police said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 1 — Police arrested an elderly man on suspicion of stabbing a boy with a knife at the playground of a block of flats in Jalan Loke Yew here yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 13 — A man was arrested on the suspicion of stabbing his one-year-old baby daughter in a flat in Puchong Permai yesterday afternoon.