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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.
Bigly Yuge: Donald Trump announces national mask mandate after Halloween brainwave
'The idea came to the President as he watched Halloween trick or treating between campaign stops in Pennsylvania,' said a White House spokesperson
Halloween 2020: Woman documents discovering hidden room with spooky dolls, 'throw whole house away', say viewers
The woman, who is known as Rooney on Tiktok, shared the video of her discovery on the video platform, which chronicled her entry into the secret room that had belongings of the former tenant
Halloween to be celebrated with COVID-19 restrictions tomorrow: From history to significance, all you need to know
The festival has its origins some 2000 years back and the day was believed to have relations with death and cold winter months
The Friday List: From a conclave on architecture and design to horror movies for Halloween, your weekly calendar of virtual events
Every Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.
Fresh lockdowns in France and Germany as virus surges in Europe; COVID-19's global toll at 12 lakh, 4.4 crore infections
Starting Friday, France will bar people from leaving their homes without authorisation, bars, and restaurants will be closed until at least December and travel between regions will be limited, President Emmanuel Macron said
The Friday List: From a Halloween special murder mystery to Mirzapur Season 2, your weekly calendar of virtual events
Every Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.
Call of Duty Mobile might get a 'Halloween' Standoff map in the season 11 update
There could be the inclusion of a Night Mode to Multiplayer maps and developers have confirmed that they are working on it.
The Friday List: From NCPA's tribute to Mahatma Gandhi to a discussion on Rajasthani miniature painting, your weekly calendar of virtual events
Every Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.
As zombies take over pop culture, a look at how the monster's conception was linked to an influenza pandemic
H.P. Lovecraft channeled this climate [of the influenza pandemic] into his stories of the period – producing corpse-filled tales with infectious atmospheres from which sprang lurching, flesh-eating invaders who left bloody corpses in their wake.
Airbnb bans 'party houses' following shootout at a Halloween party in North California
The company was expanding manual screening of "high-risk reservations" flagged by its risk detection technology