Quick-cornering jaguar: Tikal spears his jack-o'-lantern with his claws to keep it from rolling into the pool of his San Diego Zoo enclosure.
Photo: Tammy Spratt, AFP/Getty Images / SF

Shrimp stir fry again tonight? The kitchen of the Roman headquarters of the "Feline Colony of Largo Argentina" organization is often crowded around dinnertime. The group cares for several hundred cats who roam the Area Sacra ruins of Rome.
Photo: Filippo Monteforte, AFP/Getty Images / SF

A touch of weevil: Unsuspecting humans enter the gaping maw of the Beast in a Cornfield, never to be seen again. Well, not for several minutes anyway. (Pierce Farm Halloween Festival in Woodland Hills, Calif.)
Photo: Joe Klamar, AFP/Getty Images / SF

With the power still out in New York's East Village, a man has to use a flashlight to shop for groceries.
Photo: Timothy A. Clary, AFP/Getty Images / SF

Guns and whiskers: An unreliable guard falls asleep on the job at a Hamas security checkpoint in Gaza City.
Photo: Bernat Armangue, Associated Press / SF

Homicide Victim Barbie? Every Halloween, Heidi Loutzenhiser and her Halloween-loving family display more than 700 macabre dolls for her home's creepy "Doll Asylum" in Portland, Ore.
Photo: Michael Lloyd, Associated Press / SF

Sandy leaves Shaggy soggy: National Guardsman lift a hirsute hound named, appropriately enough, Shaggy, off a Guard truck after he and his owner got a ride from a flooded building in Hoboken, N.J. Parts of the city are still covered in standing water from superstorm Sandy.
Photo: Craig Ruttle, Associated Press / SF

Mainline mess: New Jersey transit officials say the Coast Line, which provides train service from shore towns to New York City, may experience prolonged disruption due to powerboats on the tracks. (South Amboy, N.J.)
Photo: Mel Evans, Associated Press / SF

Viva, la gato! A Cat-stro supporter rests under a grocery store sign that reads "Long live the Cuban Revolution!" in Havana.
Photo: Franklin Reyes, Associated Press / SF

I'm getting better: A Halloween burial at the Belantis theme park in Leipzig, Germany, appears to be a little premature.
Photo: Jens Meyer, Associated Press / SF

Tomb hopper: A boy jumps from one "apartment" grave to another at a cemetery in Manila. Millions of Filipinos will flock to cemeteries on Nov. 1 and 2, offering flowers, candles and prayers to departed loved ones in a traditional commemoration of the dead.
Photo: Noel Celis, AFP/Getty Images / SF

Hole-in-the-wall sniper: A rebel sharpshooter takes aim at a Syrian army position in a residential building in the Jedida district of Aleppo.
Photo: Narciso Contreras, Associated Press / SF

On his knees: A down-and-out Spaniard begs for alms in a street in Pamplona. The country is struggling with 25-percent unemployment.
Photo: Alvaro Barrientos, Associated Press / SF

There's a thin line between coaxing and badgering: Sharon Clay of Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding, Pa., tries to coax Digger the badger to live up to his name and kick up some dirt for the ground-breaking of a new animal exhibit.
Photo: Andreas Fuhrmann, Associated Press / SF

Dawn workout: Exercise riders walk their horses during training sessions for the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.
Photo: Jae C. Hong, Associated Press / SF