Halloween

Saudi Arabia celebrates Halloween with great zeal, receives mixed reactions

Celebrated as the 'Scary Weekend' from Thursday to Saturday, the festival also marked a major change in the kingdom's earlier stand as Halloween celebrations were banned a few years ago and often ended up with arrests

All Souls' Day: Why it is marked on 2 November

Around 1030 AD, the modern date of All Souls’ Day was established by Abbot Odilo of Cluny.

Woman creates spectacular 'Invisible Man'-inspired Halloween costume for son, internet baffled

The Invisible Man-inspired Halloween costume created by a woman for her son has gone viral as it shows a standing person with no physical body part visible in the picture

South Korea: Over 150 killed, hundreds injured in stampede at Halloween party

Local officials said that thousands of people had gathered in the Itaewon area of Seoul - the capital of South Korea - to celebrate Halloween. There was a crowd of thousands of people in the narrow streets here

Viral video: Ahead of Halloween, golden retriever dresses as 'Bat Dog'

In the adorable video, the dog can be seen wearing Batman’s lookalike black cape, cowl, and four tiny boots and sportingly posing for the camera

Watch: Duo replicates floating Max from Stranger Things as Halloween decoration; netizens bewitched

In the scene, from the sci-fi horror show, Max is possessed by the villain Vecna, and she starts to float in the air. Her friends save her by playing her favourite music 'Running up that Hill' by Kate Bush

Halloween 2021: From significance to how its celebrated, all you need to know about festival

Halloween, meaning, holy evening, is celebrated to honour saints. The eve of All Saints Day was called All Hallows Eve which then came to be known as Halloween

New York school district bans Halloween costumes inspired from South Korean series 'Squid Game'

The Fayetteville-Manlius School District in the state, which oversees three elementary schools, has prohibited students from wearing costumes from the South Korean dystopian drama.

Ben & Jerry's creates 'flavour graveyard' as tribute to discontinued ice creams

Ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s has created a graveyard for ice cream flavours that have been discontinued by the company

Jamie Lee Curtis to be feted with Golden Lion award for Lifetime Achievement at 2021 Venice Film Festival

Jamie Lee Curtis will pick up the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement on 8 September, when the latest instalment of her Halloween slasher franchise, Halloween Kills, will be screened on Venice’s Lido out of competition.