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Gaza lightning, giant hog, soaring snowboarder (11 images)
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Lightning is seen in the sky during a rainstorm over the Mediterranean sea near Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
In this Thursday, Oct 28, 2009 photo, hunters Adam Stagner and Matt Pryor killed this 780-pound feral hog in north Mobile County, Ala. The massive beast is one of the biggest free-ranging hogs ever bagged by a hunter. The boar measured 6 feet 11 inches long, had a neck girth of 51 inches, stood an estimated 44 inches tall and had 3 1/2 inch-long cutter, bottom tusks. (AP Photo/Mobile Press-Register, John David Mercer)
People light oil lamps to pay homage to the victims of last year's serial bomb blasts, in Gauhati, India, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. People paid homage to the victims of the coordinated attacks that killed 86 people and injured more than 300 others in India's troubled northeast. 13 blasts rocked Assam state on Oct. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
North Little Rock Fire Department Lt. Jeff Jeffries, right, and firefighter Brian Miller mark automobiles in a flooded intersection in North Little Rock, Ark., Friday, Oct. 30, 2009, after hours of heavy rains Thursday and early Friday. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
First Nations leaders bring the Olympic flame to shore by traditional canoe in Victoria, British Columbia, on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. The Olympic flame, which travelled from Greece, will now start a 106-day cross country relay which will end in Vancouver on Feb. 12, 2010, to mark the start of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)
British snowboarder Ben Kilner practices his jump before the Battle of Britain competition during the freestyle snowboard and ski festival at Battersea Power Station in London, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. Snowboarders are to compete in the International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup big air competition on Saturday. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
Mexico's Mayra Del Rocio Rocha, centre right, rounds the track during qualification for the Women's Scratch event at the Track Cycling World Cup Classics event at the Manchester Velodrome, Manchester, England, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
This Oct. 30, 2009 photo released by Royal Caribbean shows Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas departing a ship yard in Finland. The Oasis of the Seas, the largest passenger vessel ever built, is set to be handed over to Royal Caribbean International on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/ Royal Caribbean)
Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the Third Asian Indoor Games at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. The Asian Indoor Games will be held from October 30 to November 8. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
Dancers perform during the opening ceremony of the Third Asian Indoor Games at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. The Asian Indoor Games will be held from October 30 to November 8. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)
A U.S. Army soldier watches the sun set over the Caribbean Sea October 28, 2009 at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The base, currently best known for hosting the military prison that houses terrorists and terror suspects, is the oldest U.S. base overseas and the only one in a Communist country. After the expected close of the prison in 2010, the base will endure as resupply port for American and allied naval vessels in the Caribbean as well as remain as a strong symbol of American military power in the region. The base is spread over 45 miles of land and water on Cuba's southeastern corner and was originally leased from Cuba in 1903. A treaty between the United States and Cuba's Batista government in 1934 granted the United States a permanent lease for $4,085 per year. The base has had a tumultuous and often tense relationsip with the Castro government since the Cuban revolution, although relations have steadily improved in the last two years. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
