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The Associated Press - ALAPAHA, Ga. - Residents here gathered around television sets Sunday night for the airing of National Geographic's documentary on Hogzilla, the tusked, south Georgia super swine that was killed last summer on a nearby farm.

A picture of the alleged 1,000 pound, 12-foot animal hanging from a backhoe made international news. However, many wondered if the giant hog that hunting guide Chris Griffin claimed to have killed was nothing but a giant hoax. ...

Austin, Tx. - An electrical problem may be to blame for the death of a stunt-diving pig at the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo in Austin.

The animal known as "Big Red" was part of Randall's High Diving Pig Show.

Kamal El-Din - Unconfirmed sources report that Karen Hughes, the newly selected under secretary for public diplomacy, has made a strong start at mending frayed relations between the US and the Arab World. Hughes, a long time Bush operative, hosted a Texas style pig roast at the Bush Ranch and invited several influential Arab leaders to the table for talk and a heartily helping of roast pig.

Escambia County, Al. - County officials will be burying some 45 hogs that they were rescued after law enforcement officials broke up a hog/dog sporting event held near Flomaton in late February. Nine out of the 10 hogs tested positive for pseudorabies.

"The state veterinarian directed they be destroyed because they're infected with pseudorabies," Sheriff Grover Smith said. ...

Officials want to bury the hogs as soon as possible in an effort to deter any outbreak of the disease brucellosis, which is passed on to domestic animals, farm animals and humans.

U.K. - Viewers of the Channel 4 series were rocked by revelations of what went into processed school foods. The popular "Turkey Twizzler" was found to contain one-third meat and water, pork fat, rusk (re-baked sliced white bread), colorings and flavorings. More horrifying was the interview with a physician who revealed that some of his younger patients were vomiting their own feces because a fiber-free diet had resulted in compacted colons and severe constipation.

About Pig Tickler - The game is pretty simple. Each player has a unicycle lancer. Also used are a unicycle lancer referee, a "stoker", a mechanical pig, and the PORC (Porcine Omni-directional Randomizing Calculator). The winner is the player whose lancer scores 5 "rumps" (hits). Each turn a player moves his lancer in an attempt to get a hit on the pig. The lancer may move any distance in a straight line. Any time the lancer wants to turn, he has to make a die roll. If it fails, his lancer stops moving. If it succeeds, the lancer can continue to move. The lancer cannot run into other lancers, the pig, or the referee (which can be moved into the path of the current player's lancer once per turn). Once the lancer figure touches the pig, dice are rolled and a table gives the result. After the lancer stops moving, the player must move the pig. After that, he may move the stoker (a native with a bucket of coal or a shovel) either to attack another player or to move the pig. Tables are also checked any time a pig moves against or through a lancer, and when the stoker attacks a lancer.