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Turkey continues to voice its opposition to a controversial resolution circulating in the U.S. House regarding the 1915 mass killing of more than a million Armenians. The Turkish government has threatened to curtail military ties with the U.S., and lawmakers are withdrawing their support of the resolution.

October is high season for apples, which makes master baker Dorie Greenspan very happy. The author of Baking: From My Home to Yours shares a recipe for tarte tatin, a French dessert that resembles apple cobbler.

A House committee has voted to call on President Bush to declare that the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks 90 years ago was genocide. Turkey and the Bush administration worked unsuccessfully to defeat the resolution, but the battle is not over.

There are less than 100 days until the Iowa caucuses, which will mark the first actual voting in this long presidential campaign. And Sen. Barack Obama, who trails Sen. Hillary Clinton as frontrunner, is in Iowa urging voters to sign on to his movement.

In a new memoir, Jimmy Carter writes about his post-presidential life and his peacemaking efforts worldwide. Carter says the last 25 years could not have been more unpredictable or more gratifying.

The U.S. military commander alleges that Iran's ambassador to Iraq belongs to an elite force of the Iranian revolutionary guard that has targeted U.S. forces.

In Duluth, Minn., on Thursday, a federal jury convicted Jammie Thomas for copyright infringement for sharing music online. Thomas is to pay $9,250 for each of the 24 songs involved in the case. Eric Bangeman, who has been covering the trial for the tech Web site Ars Technica, talks with Michele Norris about what the case will mean for future litigation involving file sharing.

Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N. special envoy to Myanmar, briefed the U.N. Security Council Friday on his visits with Myanmar leader Senior General Than Shwe, and with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

In Bangladesh, rice is the daily food for everyone. A genetically engineered strain of the crop is offering hope for surviving the long-lasting floods that are a product of climate change.

In the wake of a House committee vote to label as genocide the deaths of more than 1 million Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks a century ago, Turkey's ambassador to the U.S. was recalled for consultations. He will be gone for a week or 10 days, a foreign ministry official says.