The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Unless you're Robert Mugabe, it's almost impossible to win a presidential election in Zimbabwe. One of the country's courts demands an election this summer but opponents want a delay since they don't think they have near enough time to prepare.

North and South Korea have gone from a chilling standoff, to the start of talks that could mean a thaw with plans. Today we’re asking about the future of the two Koreas when the biggest players outside their borders aren't interested in a fight.

Most people wouldn't trust someone on the internet for a diagnosis. But many put their faith in the diagnosis of thousands of people. Crowdmed.com claims to have spotted diseases that stumped professionals by using the collective wisdom of the web.

Scientists think they're on the edge of a breakthrough that could give farmers a silver bullet to kill pests without affecting the environment around them. But critics fear they're opening a Pandora's box. We look at RNAi technology in agriculture.

Brent Rathgeber is the only one to leave the Conservative backbench to sit as an Independent. He says he is fed up with the secretive ways of the Prime Minister's Office. Do Rathgeber's frustrations suggest a greater discontent within the party?

Students hoping to become teachers in Ontario are going to have to be more determined to get in front of that blackboard. The province wants to double the number of years of study and cut in half the number of students who can enroll.

In prominent Hollywood films this year, women have played lead roles as secretaries, witches and molecular biologists who look great in their underwear. Even animated princesses are pressured to be more alluring. We look at roles for women in film.

Hezbollah fighters were spotted in large numbers in Qusair yesterday as Syrian opposition fighters fled their Strategic stronghold. By forcing them out Hezbollah may have changed the game, and offered an opportunity to Assad's own failing Syrian army.

Writer James Dawes wondered what made men do evil things: why they pillaged, why they raped, why they killed. So, he asked them and he was not prepared for their answers.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield on a matter of great gravity -- the great gravity that's really weighing on him following 144 days in space. Plus targeting women drinkers and targeting bullies and their parents. Our listeners' thoughts on stories of the week.

In every other province in Canada kids raised in the Sikh religion can wear turbans on the soccer pitch while playing with their provincial associations. In Quebec, they cannot. Today we’re asking what this says about Quebec's own identity.

They called him the singing plumber but when he pointed out workplace hazards in federal buildings, his bosses were deaf. Julie Ireton traces the efforts of Rino DeRosa who tried to tell his bosses at Public Works in Ottawa their rules were being broken.

It's a burger concocted in a Dutch lab with a collection of Petri dishes and bits of beef muscle tissue. If it works, proponents of so-called Cultured Meat envision a meat alternative that could change farming forever. Of course the jury is out on the tas

It was the Spring of 2011 when flood waters forced Manitoba First Nations people out of their communities. Two years later, they are still waiting to go home and questions about aid money has triggered a flurry of activity between Winnipeg and Ottawa.

An effort by Turkish police to put a quick end to an Istanbul protest detonated such fury some people call it a Turkish Spring. So far it's a spring that smells of tear gas as a defiant Prime Minister offers his critics nothing but resistance.