As It Happens - Monday Edition

Part One

End of Gawker
After 14years of breaking news and cracking wise, Gawker.com is dead, killed by a lawsuit and tonight, a former Gawker writer tells us what the site meant to him.

Cultural Heritage ICC
Ahmed al-Mahdi admits he's guilty of leading the Islamist destruction of Timbuktu's ancient shrines but an investigator saysal-Mahdi's crimes against women and girls can't be ignored.

Groin sniffing bear
A bear doesn't just do the one thing in the woods. You see, it did do that but, a BC jogger's uncomfortably close encounter with a black bear also involved screaming on his part and unwelcome groin-sniffing on the bear's part.

Part Two

Lou Pearlman obit
For a time in the 'nineties, the late Lou Pearlman sent multiple boy bands to the top of the charts and our guest, who was in one of those bands, says he wouldn't wishPearlman's guidance on anyone.

Bagpipe lung
The old joke is that a gentleman is someone who knows how to play the bagpipes but doesn't. But the truth is that a healthy gentleman should show the same restraint or face a genuinely dangerous condition called "bagpipe lung."