LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In a forthcoming novel of ideas mirroring the breakneck paradigm shifts of the 21st century, Los Angeles writer Armen Melikian engages in a direct conversation with Turkish author Orhan Pamuk's Snow.

The Turkish parliament had a late-night session to appease Europe by amending its controversial law that makes insulting Turkishness a crime, officials said.

By MATT MOORE and KARL RITTER STOCKHOLM, Sweden - English writer Doris Lessing, who ended her formal schooling at age 13 and went on to write novels that explored relationships between the genders and races, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - English writer Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday.

By MATT MOORE and KARL RITTER STOCKHOLM, Sweden -