No Halloween street party this time in San Francisco's Castro District. City officials encouraged residents, revelers, and tourists, on radio and television, to stay at home or party somewhere else.

A corpse reported to the authorities Tuesday in Bad Segeberg, Germany was later found out as a drunken man in a Halloween costume, police said. The man fell into a drunken sleep while on a train ride home from a party in Hamburg. His zombie-like costume was mistaken by fellow passengers for a corpse.

A pro-family political party in Australia has expelled one of its members reportedly over pornography scandals. Victorian Senator Steve Fielding's Family First party has recalled the endorsement of Andrew Quah, 22, on Saturday.

Canadian court ended hearings this Wednesday of what observers see as a case that pits freedom of expression with safeguarding children. For refusing to carry what it deems to be sexually explicit pamphlets, Canada Post was sued by the Sex Party, the country's only accredited sex-related political party.

A judge on Monday ruled that the businessman who admired Margaret Thatcher so much leaving his millions to her Conservative Party was not of sound mind when he made the bequest. According to High Court judge Launcelot Henderson Branislav Kostic was mentally ill when he left the party more than USD16. 3 million, considered as one of the largest individual political donations in British history.