Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is a holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, the United Kingdom, and at times in parts of Australia and New Zealand.
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Staff on the NBC 'Today' television programme, dress as fairy-tale characters for their annual Halloween show in New York's Rockefeller Centre.
Revellers celebrate Halloween in the Lan Kwai Fong night life district of Hong Kong, China.
A resident of Manila's Marikina suburb parades in Halloween costume during a parade.
Scarily good fun: revellers enjoy their Halloween celebrations in Hong Kong.
Children collect treats from local residents on Halloween Day in North Bondi, Sydney, Australia.
Breakfast DJ Chris Moyles in Halloween garb as he heads to a private party thrown by the controversial BBC presenter, Jonathan Ross.
A young girl dress in costume while trick or treating homes on Halloween Day in North Bondi, Sydney.
A child gets painted by a relative as they prepare for a Halloween costume contest in Manila.
US Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama campaigns in front of carved Halloween pumpkins during an election rally in Columbia. Source:telegraph.co.uk
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