Dark side of Halloween
As some 36 million costumed American children prepare to take to the streets of towns and cities around the United States to trick or treat, officials issued stark warnings about the dark side of Halloween, reports AFP from Washington.

Horror stories about costume that go up in flames as a child walks past a Jack O’Lantern, or of sweet buckets and drink mugs with excessive levels of lead, have been making the rounds, justifiably scaring the heebie-geebies out of parents.Earlier this month, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalled 63,000 green plastic Frankenstein cups because they contained scarily high levels of lead.

Prince Philip has heart problem
Buckingham Palace is worried over Prince Philip’s health, who has been suffering from a heart problem “for the past 15 years”, reports PTI from London.

“The Duke of Edinburgh has regular checkups (at the British Heart Foundation) but recently there has been some concern as he was feeling unwell,” the Daily Mail reported on Saturday, quoting a senior Royal courtier as saying here.

‘Many Americans believe in ghosts’
It was bad enough when the TV and lights inexplicably flicked on at night, Misty Conrad says. When her daughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicole and neighbours said children had been murdered in the house, it was time to move, reports AP from Washington. Put Conrad, a homemaker is firmly in the camp of the 34 per cent of Americans who say they believe in ghosts.