Mar 1st, 2010 · Britain's defense ministry says it will shred records of UFO sightings after a huge rise in the number of reports submitted by the public. The Ministry of Defense said Sunday that new reports will be thrown out after 30 days, rather than kept on file.
Jan 30th, 2010 · A joint U.S.-Afghan force called in an airstrike on what turned out to be an Afghan army post after taking fire from there before dawn Saturday, killing four Afghan soldiers and prompting an angry demand for punishment from the country's defense ministry.
Dec 15th, 2009 · Evangelist Oral Roberts died Tuesday at the age of 91, his spokesman said. Roberts rose from tent revivals to found a multimillion dollar ministry and a university. Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, calls Roberts a pioneer.
Dec 15th, 2009 · Evangelist Oral Roberts died Tuesday at the age of 91, his spokesman said. Roberts rose from tent revivals to found a multimillion dollar ministry and a university. David Edwin Harrell, Jr., author of Oral Roberts: An American Life, discusses Roberts' legacy.
Nov 26th, 2009 · The head of Germany's armed forces and a senior official from the defense ministry resigned Thursday following allegations the ministry withheld information about civilian casualties sustained during an airstrike in Afghanistan in September. Christian Thiels, senior defense correspondent for the German television network ARD, says the two officials who resigned knew of the civilian casualties.
Nov 19th, 2009 · Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships in Berlin, but the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the South African sports ministry says.
Sep 13th, 2009 · This past week, Russia's education ministry announced that the country's high schools will now require students to read excerpts from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. Perhaps more than any other work, this formerly-banned book exposed the extent and horrors of Soviet oppression. NPR's correspondent in Moscow Anne Garrels says the education ministry's announcement should not be taken as a sign that Russian leaders are now prepared to fully and honestly confront the Stalinist past. The announcement comes amid a stream of pronouncements from the Kremlin about Russia's historic role and rightful place on the world stage.
Aug 19th, 2009 · The series of explosions targeted government and commercial buildings in the Iraqi capital. The deadliest strike involved a car bomb near the foreign ministry that left dozens dead and more than 250 wounded. Iraqi police and medical officials said the toll may climb as rescue workers continue to search through rubble and debris.