Novelist Salman Rushdie was in hiding for fear of his life for many years. Then he showed up onstage with U2. Then he wrote a song with them. In this extract from a piece in The Sunday Times he recalls how it all came about.

U2 will be performing "Stay" via satellite at the Amnesty International UK 'We Know Where You Live' event this Sunday 3rd June.

An article in The Observer Newspaper in London forty years ago today, led to the birth of Amnesty International, one of the world's leading human rights organisations.

Bono and Bob Geldof were among hundreds of famous Irish faces at Dublin Castle last night to greet former President ...

Robert K. Elder, of the Chicago Tribune, reports on how 'Varied causes forge bond among fans at U2's Chicago concert'


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Reality Check, a new report into the IMF and World Bank commissioned by campaign group, Drop The Debt, shows they can afford to cancel...

U2 have declared war on Hollywood legend CHARLTON HESTON over his views on gun control, according to NME.COM



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The world faces the largest extinction event in its history according to Wildlifeline, a UK conservation charity launched this weekend.



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As the Elevation 2001 tour gets underway in the US, the band have invited fans to maintain pressure on US ...

Greenpeace, Amnesty International and Drop the Debt, three campaigning organisations long supported by U2, will be travelling with the Elevation ...

Bono raised the campaign for debt relief for developing countries with the US State Department and Colin Powell at a ...

Ever wanted to get your hands on a genuine pair of Bono's handmade Black Fly shades?

Getting away with torture just got a little harder. Amnesty International, an organisation long supported by U2, has launched a ...

Bob Geldof, who works closely with Bono on cancelling the debts of the world's poorest countries, argues that a new ...

Bono is to speak at this week's meeting of the World Economic Forum, an annual convention of business and political ...

Jonathan Peterson of the Los Angeles Times With a Behind-The-Scenes Look At The Efforts Of An Unlikely Cast Of Characters ...

Today U2 and Radiohead fans join forces in a worldwide e-mail petition to force the world's richest countries to cancel...

Well, at the end of the year 2000, the debts of the worlds poorest countries to the richest have not ...

The singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl, 41, has died in an accident on a diving holiday in Mexico.

The ill-fated Chernobyl nuclear plant has been permanently shut down in Ukraine - more than 14 years after a reactor ...

President Bill Clinton quoted U2 as he began his visit to Ireland yesterday...

In the new edition of Rolling Stone Magazine, Bono is nominated as one of the 'people of the year', ...

Friday December 1st is World AIDS Day. In the African country of Zambia, one-in-five adults is infected with HIV...

Following our story last week, inviting fans to lobby European politicians in advance of a meeting with Burmese politicians...

What President Bill Clinton had to say (Monday) about debt relief for the world's poorest countries - and how he ...