September 4, 2016 - Hour 1




THE BIGGER PICTURE with Timothy Spangler show

Summary: Making headlines around the world this week: * A daredevil unicyclist scaled an 840-foot tall chimney in Romania and performed balancing and juggling tricks from the dizzying altitude. * Besides the typical matryoshki and vodka, visitors to Moscow can now pick up a Kalashnikov machine gun as a gift to take back home * A New Zealand library is testing an unusual method to deter fight-happy teenagers from loitering -- a sonic device designed to repel mosquitoes. * A cow escaped an Australian slaughterhouse and ran wild through the streets of a Queensland city before being stopped by police. * A Buddhist monk living in a monastery in Thailand won a nearly $175,000 lottery jackpot thanks to a "lucky" number revealed to him by a tree. * A Japanese fisherman called upon his martial arts skills after being attacked by a large bear near a local river.