Amid a messy breakup with the U-S, Canada looks elsewhere -- and our guest says today's meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping suggests the start of a new chapter. 

As the UN reports on mass killings and executions in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, families struggle to reach their loved ones there. A D.C. woman tells us she hasn't slept for days waiting for news of her uncle. 

All systems goo. According to science, when you zone out, it's not just all the thoughts leaving your brain -- a certain amount of cerebrospinal fluid gloops out as well. 

We have just learned that bats in Georgia glow -- and not only that, but a bunch of them glow in precisely the same way. A researcher tells us this new information is illuminating in every sense. 

If you're trying to figure out how to fulfill your responsibility as a Toronto Blue Jays fan and as the parent of a trick-or-treater, an Ontario man says it's like taking candy from a ... neighbour. 

As It Happens, the Halloween edition, Radio that listens for things that go ump in the night.