Hello, and welcome to the programme.
This is News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm Paul Henley.
Coming up, we'll hear from the writer Salman Rushdie about his new collection of fiction,
the first published since he was attacked on stage by a man wielding a knife three years ago.
Also...
It represents so much.
It represents equality.
It represents freedom.
It represents equal pay for equal work.
I knew I had to win.
The tennis legend Billie Jean King, speaking about her Battle of the Sexes match in 1973,
it's been announced that next month there will be another similar match,
this time between the women's top ranked player and a man ranked 652nd in the world.
That's coming up later.
First, in the past few hours, it's been announced that the former U.S.
Vice President Dick Cheney has died.
Vice President Cheney, who was 84, served two terms during the presidency of George W.
Bush.