The Large Hadron Collider on the outskirts of Geneva is the world's most powerful particle accelerator. It was designed to recreate in miniature fireballs similar to the conditions that prevailed at the birth of the universe, and occupies a 17-mile tunnel beneath Switzerland.

Unfortunately, it stopped working this week. After double-checking that it was still plugged in and that the electricity bill was paid up, scientists looked further afield for the source of the problem.

That was when they discovered that a small weasel, known as a fouine, had chewed through some wiring.

The collider, which discovered the Higgs boson in July 2012, is expected to be out of action for a week while the connections to the transformer are replaced.

A similar problem occurred in 2009, when the power was cut to one of the LHC's cooling plants. That incident was blamed on a bird dropping part of a baguette on a capacitor where the mains supply entered the LHC from the ground.

We should start to consider if the animals know something about the LHC that we don't. Is this all part of a larger scheme by the rest of the animal kingdom to stop our investigations into high energy particles?

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* A mother decided to give her baby a unique name after giving birth aboard a flight on an Asian airline...

* Russia's Kremlin has allocated more than $1 million toward technology that will guarantee good weather in the country's capital city for its May 1 festivities.

* An Australian brewery is mixing up a unique malted beverage for an upcoming festival: a beer brewed using yeast from belly button lint.

* A woman in New Zealand returned a book that she had checked out from a library more than 60 years ago.

* A British inventor constructed a metallic hover bike that uses propellers to allow it to float a few inches off of the ground.

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TONY ABATEMARCO, accomplished character actor who has appeared in "How to Get Away with Murder, "The L Word," "ER" and "Frasier," is our featured guest this week.

TONY has been appearing on our television screens for many years, initially in shows such as "One Day and a Time," "Scarecrow and Mrs King" and "Hunter," and more recently in fan-favorite "How to Get Away with Murder." His feature film credits include "Beverly Hills Ninja 2," "Town & Country" and "Sleeping with the Enemy."

Along the way, he has had a successful career in theatre. He has portrayed real-life figures Judge Francis Biddle in "Trying" and painter Mark Rothko in "Red." His plays Forever House and Beautified premiered at Skylight Theatre Company, where he is co-artistic director. TONY also founded two LA theaters: The Accident Theatre and The Night House. He is a three-time Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award nominee for lead performance (including for "Red").

This month, TONY will be staring in "A Walk in the Woods," a brilliant and funny play of ideas by playwright Lee Blessing at the International City Theatre in Long Beach. Winner of the prestigious American Theatre Critics/Steinberg New Play Award, and nominated for both the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, this dramatic comedy was inspired by historic conversations between a pair of arms negotiators during the Cold War. In the play, TONY plays a cynical career Soviet diplomat who meets an idealistic American negotiator in the woods outside Geneva to explore the obstacles their countries face on the path to peace.

Hear our live interview with TONY ABATEMARCO this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM.

President Xi Jinping has a dream. He wants to see China become one of the great soccer countries in the world. This month Beijing unveiled plans to completely revolutionize the way the global game is played in China.

The country already has the world's largest football academy, and in a mere 5 years will have 20,000 specialist football academies and more than 30 million students regularly playing soccer.

The ultimate goal is that by 2050, China would be able to host the World Cup tournament, and perhaps even make a run at winning the competition.

There is - ahem! - some substantial improvement necessary in order for China to reach these goals. The country is currently ranked 81st in the world in soccer.

Not to worry - the short-term solution for Chinese soccer clubs is easy. Import a LOT of Brazilian players who will help the locals learn how to really play the "jogo bonito," or beautiful game!

Always nice to see globalization in action!

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* An unusual street fight in China involved rival construction firms using bulldozers and front-end loaders to do battle in the middle of an urban street.

* British police busted a bungling burglar who officers said left a trail of white paint footprints from the scene of the crime to his own front door.

* The Australian owner of a dog thought to be the world's oldest at 30 years of age announced the canine died peacefully in her sleep.

* A resident of an apartment building in Colombia was recorded climbing out of his 13th story balcony to rescue a dog dangling from a ledge.

* A woman in Spain was thanked by a local train station after finding and returning a bag containing more than €8,000 in cash.

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RICHARD AZURDIA, featured actor on the critically-acclaimed Hulu TV show "East Los High," is our special guest this Sunday night!

A true Angeleno, born and raised in L.A., RICHARD has gained widespread notice for his role as Ramon on the drama, "East Los High." He has also appeared on other popular TV shows such as "Gracie and Frankie," "Southland" and "Weeds," in addition to well received Spanish film "Ladron Que Roba A Ladron," released by Lionsgate.

An accomplished stage actor, RICHARD has appeared in a variety of productions across the country, including "Just Like Us" (Denver Center Theatre Co. - Broadway World Awards Nominee for Supporting Actor), "American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose" (Denver Center Theatre Co.- Henry Award Nominee for Supporting Actor), "Living Out" (Mark Taper Forum), "La Posada Magica" (Odyssey Theater) and "Stranger" (Bootleg Theater-5 LA Weekly Awards Noms/3 LADCC Awards Noms).

He's a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Artistic Leaders Fellowship and was named one of L.A. Weekly's "People Issue" of 2015.

RICHARD is now back in Los Angeles for the premiere of "My Mañana Comes" at the Fountain Theatre. Just beyond the elegant dining room of an Upper East Side restaurant, service workers angle for shifts, pray for tips and cling to dreams of life beyond their daily back-of-house grind. The minimum wage crisis and rights for undocumented workers lie at the center of this funny and powerful new play.

Hear our live interview with RICHARD AZURDIA this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM.

Venezuela may be facing the near-complete collapse of its economy, but this week President Nicolas Maduro single-handedly escorted his country into a brighter future.

Breaking with a decision made almost a decade ago by his charismatic predecessor Hugo Chavez, Maduro has decided to move every clock in Venezuela forward 30 minutes.

The purposes of this DIY time travel is to add a little more daylight in the evening when energy consumption is at its peak.

So stop worrying about the frequent water and electricity cuts, the world's highest inflation and a deep recession.

At least now you can look enjoy a little more sunlight on your walk home in the evening from a job that doesn't pay you enough to buy anything at the stores that often don't have anything left on their shelves!

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* An octopus at a New Zealand aquarium took advantage of a narrow opportunity to escape from his tank into the Pacific Ocean.

* Customs agents at a Vietnamese airport said a man was hiding 18 live songbirds in his pant legs and checked bags in an attempt to smuggle them to Taiwan.

* A couple in the UK are in negotiations wth several buyers after finding a valuable lump of whale vomit, or ambergris, on a local beach.

* Teenager Alexei Romanov plays the piano despite what would seem to be a debilitating disability for a musician: He has been handless since birth.

* A hotel in New Zealand implemented a new dress code that prohibits customers from wearing Lycra bicycle shorts.

Call us this Sunday night between 10pm and midnight during the live broadcast of THE BIGGER PICTURE on 866-870-5752 (or 866-870-KRLA). Let us know what you're thinking about the state of the world we live in today!

DIANE CAREY, best-known for her starring role in the cult TV series, "V," is our Featured Guest this Sunday night.

DIANE has guest starred on dozens of television series and pilots, including "Alien Nation," "Alf," "Voyagers," "Fame," "Quail Lake," "LA Law," "Tales from the Crypt," "The Young and the Restless," "Cold Case," "The Starter Wife," "Defying Gravity" and "Ugly Betty." She was a series regular on both the pilot and mini-series of "V," as well as on the NBC cult series "Misfits of Science." She has appeared in several feature films, including the Academy Award- nominated "El Norte," "Heart Condition," "Strawberry Road," "Haraka" and "American Fango." Most recently, DIANE starred as "Rebecca" in the thriller feature film "Kantemir."

An accomplished theatre actress, DIANE is starring in the world-premiere of the pitch-black comedy, "Dinner at Home between Deaths," opening this month at the Odyssey Theatre here in Los Angeles. Inspired by the Bernie Madoff scandal and other Ponzi schemes before and since, the comic thriller examines the American dream and American identity in the face of eroding ethics.

Hear our live interview with DIANE CAREY this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM!

Madonna is at it again!

The 57 year old pop star and scandal magnate is currently on tour in Australia, and local legal experts now claim she could be facing charges of sexual harassment.

Her troubles stem from a concert this week in Brisbane, Queensland, where she pulled down the top of a teenage fan who had been brought on stage, thereby exposing the young girl's left breast to the audience.

With typical Madonna-bravura, she said the attractive 17 year-old was "the kind of girl you just want to slap on the" = ahem, bottom - "and pull." Then she quickly pulled down the girl's top to give the crowd a brief - but unobstructed - view of her half-rack.

Consent for this sexually-motived contact was neither asked for nor given ahead of time.

Afterwards, fortunately, the teenager said she had no intention of pursuing criminal charges against the aging singer.

Lucky for Madonna! It not clear how well she would do in prison, although she could liven up the next series of "Orange is the New Black" - if she isn't shanked first for having wandering hands...

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* The Israel Antiquities Authority announced a woman hiking in Galilee stumbled upon a nearly 2,000-year-old gold coin from the Roman Empire.

* A racehorse modeled the first Harris Tweed suit designed specifically for a horse before England's Cheltenham Festival.

* A woman in China who sealed her eyes shut when she mistook super glue for eye drops avoided damage to her eyes thanks to her contact lenses, doctors said.

* A baby in China might be headed for a bright future of Iditarod competition after the child's father rigged up a stroller to be pulled by several small dogs.

* A Western Australia family found a garage-invading snake had already been captured by one of nature's perfect traps -- a redback spider's web.

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BARBARA TARBUCK, from hit FX TV show, "American Horror Story," is our special guest this Sunday night!

BARBARA has made literally hundreds of TV appearances over the years, including most recently as Mother Superior Claudia on "American Horror Story - Asylum," as well as "Mad Men," "Cold Case" and "ER," but she is best known as Australian Jane Jax on "General Hospital." She's been seen in feature films such as "Walking Tall," "Curley Sue" and Peter Greenaway's "Tulse Luper Suitcases."

Trained on a Fulbright Grant to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, BARBARA's New York theater work includes the American premiere of Harold Pinter's "Landscape and Silence;" David Mamet's "The Water Engine" at the Public Theater; the Broadway production of Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and the national tour of his "Broadway Bound;" and the Signature Theatre production of María Irene Fornés' "Enter the Night."

This month, BARBARA brings her funny, touching solo show, "Stopping By" to the Atwater Village Theatre here in Los Angeles. The play tells the story of an older woman's encounter with the vast open space, violent dust storms, glowing night skies and uninhibited joy of thousands at the Burning Man festival.

Hear our live interview with BARBARA TARBUCK this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM!

Russia's Defense Ministry is looking to acquire five bottle-nosed dolphins for its "killer dolphin" unit in Crimea, according to a formal tender posted this week on an official government site.

The requirements are exacting - between three and five years old, and between 2.3 and 2.7 meters long - but a tidy sum of over $5,000 per dolphin is available for those that fit the bill.

Russia has operated a "killer dolphin" unit since the Cold War. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the Crimea-based program was inherited by Ukraine, but it fell on hard times during those years.

Fortunately, when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Moscow regained control of the dolphin program and is committed to expanding it in the years to come.

Only one other country currently train military dolphins - not North Korea, Iran nor China, but.... the United States!

Meanwhile, the world continued to lurch from one ridiculous story to another:

* One of the world's most popular skiing competitions - Sweden's Vasaloppet - is adding a twist to its formula by giving participants the option to complete the race at night.

* Motorists on a busy stretch of highway in the capital of Qatar were shocked to discover an unusual traveler in traffic -- a tiger.

* A pair of fraternal twins born in Vietnam have been found to have different fathers according to local scientists.

* A family in Australia were excited to see the end of a drought in the area, but got more than they bargained for when fish began falling from the sky.

* A Norwegian daredevil set out to break an unusual world record when he took his snowmobile for a 131-mile trip on the surface of a river.

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BILL BROCHTRUP, from TNT's hit show, "Major Crimes," and ABC's Emmy Award-winning police drama, "NYPD Blue," is our special guest this Sunday night.

BILL is a stage, film, and television actor, best known for playing "John Irvin," the cheerful administrative aide on the iconic police drama, "NYPD Blue." He is currently appearing as child psychologist "Dr. Joe" on TNT's "Major Crimes," following recurring roles on Jon Avnet's web-series "Kendra" and Showtime's "Shameless."

His film work includes "Life As We Know It," "He's Just Not That Into You," "Duck," "Ravenous," "Space Marines," and the upcoming "Mind Puppets."

BILL is also the Co-Artistic Director of The Antaeus Company, Los Angeles' acclaimed Classical Theatre ensemble. This month, he will be starring there in the play "Cloud 9," a modern classic, fractures the conventional comedy in a wickedly funny, take-no-prisoners carnal romp. In the wilds of 19th century Africa, the colonizers are restless in more ways than one. Friends and family flirt and fumble with power, gender and sexuality, hilariously pushing against the boundaries of Victorian imperialism. Fast forward 100 years to the concrete jungle of London, where the Victorian legacy finally explodes in a blast of sexual awakening, self-acceptance and delectable humor.

Hear our live interview with BILL BROCHTRUP this Sunday evening on KRLA 870AM!