Fishermen in the Philippines on Sunday threatened to launch a "fish strike" if the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo failed to stop the oil companies from raising and overpricing the prices of petroleum products in the country. "If fish strikes across the country are necessary to compel the Macapagal-Arroyo government and the oil mafia composed Petron, Shell and Caltex to stop, rollback and put an end to corporate practices of price manipulation and overpricing, then we will call our colleagues to go on a nationwide fish holiday," the fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas said in a press statement.

Italian parliament's first transgender MP has been barred from being witness at a cousin's wedding. Vladimir Luxuria, born Wladimiro Guadagno, is a 42-year-old former drag queen.

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.