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Ukrainian military officials say the strikes are an attempt to destroy infrastructure facilities and transport hubs and to target supply chains.

NPR's Jerome Vaughn reports from Chicago on the growing popularity of meal preparation and delivery services. The businesses offer healthy meals to customers too busy to cook and calculate diet requirements.

NPR's Don Gonyea traveled with President Bush in Wisconsin and reports on how the White House is dealing with the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.

NPR's Scott Simon takes note of recent comments by the man who runs the cemetery in Paris where the late rock singer Jim Morrison of The Doors is buried. The caretaker wants the tomb moved because of the many troublesome fans who come to pay their respects.

As President Bush campaigns in the Midwest, he highlights an improved economy but finds he can't ignore the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea and Brian Bull of Wisconsin Public Radio.

U.S. officials in Baghdad announce that military policeman Spc. Jeremy Sivits will be the first to face a court-martial over prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison. The May 19 proceeding will determine whether Sivits merits a "bad conduct discharge." Observers say the speed with which the charges are being brought reflects the military's desire to put the abuse scandal to rest. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

This week's letter to ethicist Randy Cohen comes from a listener in Beijing who wants to know whether a friend is obliged to pass on damning information about a former manager now applying to business schools.

NPR's Peter Kenyon, reporting from Baghdad, reports a senior United Nations envoy has resumed talks in Baghdad aimed at selecting the members of an interim Iraqi government that would be granted limited authority by U.S. occupation authorities at the end of June. Some members of Iraq's U.S.-appointed governing council have been sharply critical of Lakhdar Brahimi's mission, saying it violates the country's interim constitution. Many, if not most, of the council members are likely to lose their jobs when the new government is formed.

Two more Israeli soldiers die in Gaza after gun battles with Palestinian militants Friday. In the past three days, 13 Israeli soldiers have been killed in clashes with militia gunmen, and well over 100 Palestinians have been killed or wounded. NPR's Julie McCarthy reports.

The Pentagon issues a denial of charges that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld began a secret program to collect intelligence from foreign detainees independently of the CIA. The report, in a New Yorker article by Seymour M. Hersh, describes Rumsfeld approving the use of Special Access Programs personnel for interrogations in Iraq. Hear NPR's Liane Hansen and Hersh.