ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s Foreign Ministry says the ambassador to Brazil has been recalled after that country’s senate passed a resolution recognizing the massacres of Armenians a century ago as genocide. The ministry said late Monday that Ambassador Huseyin Dirioz was returning to Ankara for consultations over what it termed …

LUCKNOW, India – Police are investigating the death of a journalist set on fire after he accused a state minister of being involved in illegal mining and land seizures in northern India. The freelance journalist, Joginder Singh, gave a statement to a magistrate before dying Monday from burns covering 60 …

A Florida high school principal, who defended the Texas police officer at the center of that infamous pool melee, has become the latest victim of radical speech police hell-bent on trying to silence public discourse. Alberto Iber lost his job as the principal at North Miami Senior High School after …

An American missionary doctor in Liberia who was not treating Ebola patients has tested positive for the virus, SIM USA confirmed. The unidentified doctor was treating obstetrics patients at SIM’s ELWA hospital in Monrovia, the organization said in a news release. The doctor was treating patients in the main hospital, …

LANCASTER, N.H. – A judge has ruled that the mother and stepfather of a girl who was taken out of the United States a decade ago during a custody dispute can have a joint trial. Genevieve and Scott Kelley and her then-8-year-old daughter fled in 2004. They said they were …

NEW DELHI – Nestle India says it will destroy instant noodles worth 3.2 billion rupees ($50 million) following a sales ban imposed by Indian food safety authorities for unsafe levels of lead. India’s food safety panel says tests conducted across the country found that Nestle’s Maggi noodles contained lead at …

MEXICO CITY – Honduran soldiers are taking over public hospitals and medicine storage warehouses to guarantee the supply of drugs to patients after a recent fraud and graft scandal rocked the Social Security Institute. President Juan Orlando Hernandez says the army will perform an inventory to determine whether there are …

Editor’s Note: See bottom for update to this story. As Ban Ki-moon begins his second term as United Nations Secretary General, he has come under withering criticism from within the world organization over the way he hires and replaces top managers. In a remarkably harsh report, a special U.N. investigative …

American Evangelical theologian William Lane Craig is ready to debate the rationality of faith during his U.K tour this fall, but it appears that some atheist philosophers are running shy of the challenge. This month president of the British Humanist Association, Polly Toynbee, pulled out of an agreed debate at …

What if you could erase your memories? Or restore those you’ve long forgotten? That’s the premise of the 2004 film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.” The Jim Carrey movie suggested that, in an alternate reality, doctors could re-program our memories. Drunken binge last weekend? A relationship you’d like to …