The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)

The words size and breasts aren't often unconnected. Whether you are a Double A or a Triple D, what fills bras has long been a source of fascination and until recently, a fair amount of mystery. We talk to an author who has been exploring the world of breasts, calls them an evolutionary masterpiece ... but warns that in our modern world they are increasingly in peril.

For months the pictures of death and destruction coming out of Syria have been wrenching, even as the political condemnation coming from world leaders has been consistent and ineffective. Today, we’re asking how that happens, how the civilians of one nation can be so victimized, how a world can be so aware and how everyone is so able to look away.

For most of us, Rupert Murdoch is a powerful businessman who knows how to throw his weight around. But to British MP Tom Watson, Murdoch runs a shadow state, not a business. In his new book, Watson claims that not only is he a victim of Murdoch Inc. so is British democracy.

Someone is looting the treasures of Greece. As the nation struggles with austerity, archeologists warn that wealthy collectors are ordering up the theft of precious antiquities. We look at the implications as we update and check-in on the stories we’ve been covering over the past week.

Hosni Mubarak's life has been described as Skakespearean, the military man whose politician ascension was enabled by the assassination of another Anwar Sadat. His greatest humiliation would come with modern Egypt's greatest triumph, the demonstrations of the Arab Spring that forced him from power and saw him frail and hated, propped up on a stretcher at his own trial. And now as his successor is about to ascend, Hosni Mubarak returns to the headlines hovering near death. Today, we learn more about the Hosni Mubarak few understood.

We were expecting Google to tell us about the dictatorships that try to have things yanked from its sites. But our own Canadian government agencies ? Google's latest Transparency Report points to troubling trends in Western democracy.

The Athabasca pipeline, a major conduit out of the Oilsands has been shut down in northern Alberta as Enbridge begins to cleanup a spill of diluted Bitumen. Far to the east, an earlier Enbridge pipeline rupture disgorged more than 800-thousand gallons of thick Bitumen crude into a tributary of Michigan's Kalamazoo River. Only now, 2 years later will it be reopened for recreational use. As hearings into the Gateway Pipeline continue, we're asking about the lessons learned.

Can you be too fat to be an acceptable parent? One man's obesity is one of the factors being considered in a child custody dispute before the courts in Ottawa. He's lost well over a hundred pounds but the once-morbidly-obese Dad is still obese and a child protection agency says that affects his ability to parent. Today, some words from the Dad and a debate on the implications of using weight to determine custody.

China is on a global shopping binge spending billions on everything from mountain-tops and minerals, from food to fuel, offering jobs, infrastructure and investment to countries as varied as Columbia and Kenya and Canada to supply China's swelling middle class. With Prime Minister Harper poised to trumpet closer market ties to China today, economist Dambisa Moyo offers her perspective. She sees a world-wide commodities shortage looming, one for which China is preparing aggressively. Are the rest of us asleep at the wheel? Or the spigot?

Twenty years ago, the nations of the world rushed to Rio with sunny ambitions and plans to create political momentum for a world-wide green economy, to protect the environment and tackle poverty and inequality. Within weeks, it had all started to unravel. Twenty years later another Rio Summit is set to begin but the Canadians who took part last time return in a different political climate. Today, we look at what they hoped for and what we've got.

He didn't act violently against a civilian. He did not abuse alcohol. He is not accused of sexual misconduct against subordinates. Constable Derrick Holdenried admits he made mistakes. But he can't understand why the Mounties want to get rid of him.

The vote count in Greece was barely in when the Euro brightened - briefly and Eurozone finance ministers more secure in their own existence were again talking emergency loans. But while Greece and the entire Eurozone are fixated on their financial failings, millions of people in a swath of African countries face famine. They aren't asking for Tens-of-Billions but One Billion. As the G-20 leaders gather in Mexico, we look away from the European Mirror to where the global meltdown is arguably far more acute.

We are commemorating the War of 1812 here in Canada. They can barely remember it across the border. That would be the border the fledgling American republic had hoped to erase or at least move with the War of 1812. Do we think we won? You Betcha!! But it was also a moment in time. It was a Game-Changer that shaped our nation.

The bloodshed continues unabated in Syria. And the world still has no idea what to do. Diplomacy hasn't worked, as the country spirals closer and closer towards all out civil war. But the fighting could not happen without weapons and Syria's government would not have weapons (or at least not as many) without Russia. The United States has led the call for Russia to turn off the flow of arms to the Assad regime. So far the call has been ignored. But how clean are American hands? That's a question human rights groups and some U.S. politicians are asking these days... in light of information that the pentagon has its own contract with Russia's biggest arms supplier.

People may not suffer from mange and dogs don't get whooping cough; but animals and people do share plenty of other ailments. We'll hear from a cardiologist who believes doctors would serve their patients better if they'd just spend more afternoons at the zoo.