Terry Davis "burst onto the literary scene with a celebrated piece of literature that remains to this day a bible for many high school wrestling coaches and their charges," wrote young adult novelist Chris Crutcher in the introduction to the 2002...

More than 80,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Council of Europe to send an independent team of doctors to the Turkish jail where Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan is held to examine whether he is being poisoned, a left-wing group in the...

Japan executed three men for murder Friday, including a convicted rapist who stabbed to death a previous victim in revenge for testifying against him, the government said.Prison officials hanged Takashi Mochida in Tokyo, Masahiko Matsubara in the western city of Osaka, and Keishi Nago in...

Turkey's prime minister appealed for calm Monday after the stock market dropped amid a deepening conflict between his Islamic-oriented government and pro-secular forces backed by the military.Turkey, a candidate for European Union membership, has been recovering from a 2001 financial crisis, curbing inflation and pushing...

Serbia's pro-democracy parties agreed Friday to form a new power-sharing government, excluding ultranationalists who supported late President Slobodan Milosevic and threatened to turn the troubled Balkan nation away from the West.The United States and European Union were alarmed this week by the election of a...