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A Canadian tells us about her efforts to track down her brother and sister-in-law — who went missing during the flash floods in Nepal.A new school year begins in Ukraine, but a lot of students are making do without textbooks — because of ongoing Russian strikes that have destroyed millions of books.After a jury delivers a guilty verdict in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, we reach the man who snapped an iconic photo of the rapper moments before he was shot.Wyatt Esbaugh was fishing when a bald eagle snatched his lure, and got snagged in the process. The Nova Scotia teen walks us through the tricky process of freeing the bird.A mathematician spent the last 15 years trying to create a theoretical set of dice to solve the problem of who goes first in a board game — a problem he admits isn't actually a problem.A Virginia doctor shares a story you'll wish she hadn't shared — of waking up in a flap to find a flapping thing trying to flap its way into the dark cave in her face.As It Happens, the Tuesday Edition. Radio that leaves a bat taste in your mouth.

Hundreds of workers in Nepal are believed to be trapped underground in hydropower tunnels, after last week’s floods. Their families are angry -- but still hopeful they'll be rescued.Icelanders vote against restarting talks to join the European Union. A No supporter tells us that it wasn't about pushing the EU away, but embracing her own country's sovereignty.Rescuers swoop in to save a mountain climber who's stranded on a six-inch ledge, ten thousand feet above the ground. A firefighter tells us the nighttime rescue could easily have ended very badly.An astronomer is delighted at the launch of NASA's new Nancy Grace Roman telescope -- which he says will help us better understand the universe and our place in it.Voters have chosen the winner of the inaugural “Fat Marmot Week”. We’ll hear how a “special boy who likes to eat rocks,” managed to tip the scales in his favour.After conducting a study of fans at a German rock festival, scientists announce that listening to heavy metal might actually increase your pain threshold.As It Happens, the Monday Edition. Radio that finds poetry in moshin'. 

We reach an aid worker in Kathmandu whose teams are working nonstop to reunite children separated from their parents by this week's flash floods. An Ottawa company rushes to create a hat emblazoned with "Lake Ontario," and tells us they're finding plenty of customers in Canada... and beyond. A reporter untangled the complex criminal web that is fueling a car theft boom in Canada — and reveals where those pilfered vehicles are ending up. For years, archaeologists in Nova Scotia have tried to find the remnants of one of the first grain mills in North America. An amateur historian tells us why he thinks he's getting very close. One New Yorker shares why he's made it his mission to measure exactly how sweltering it is in the subway stations below the city's streets — and to offer some relief to sweltering commuters. As It Happens, the Friday Edition. Radio that's never afraid to break a sweat.