In pictures: Halloween around the world

23 photos of how people celebrated Halloween around the world

Halloween this year saw fake presidential candidates, fluffy animals and blood-splattered zombies cut loose on the streets. One of the oldest holidays, Halloween is still celebrated around the globe today. The popular holiday, which is the highest grossing holiday after Christmas, involves costume parties, trick-or-treating, pranks and games.

After a weekend of Halloween revelry, we look at how it was celebrated around the world.

A woman wearing a Hillary Clinton mask carries a Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump doll during a Halloween parade in Long Beach, California. PHOTO: AFP

A member of the Exit Point amateur rope-jumping group wearing a Halloween mask jumps from a 44-metre-high (144-ft) water pipe bridge to mark the end of the group's jumping season and recent Halloween festivities, in the Siberian Taiga area outside Krasnoyarsk, Russia. PHOTO: REUTERS

Participant poses in a Halloween parade in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo. PHOTO: REUTERS

Participants take part in a Zombie Walk parade during Halloween celebrations in Kiev, Ukraine. PHOTO: REUTERS

A participant wearing costume symbolising Samsung Galaxy Note 7 walks among pedestrians after a Halloween parade in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, Japan. PHOTO: REUTERS

Participants take part in a Trick or Treat halloween fun run in Richmond Park, London, Britain. PHOTO: REUTERS

Zombies clamor for wig mannequins during the annual Silver Spring Zombie Walk before Halloween in Silver Spring, Maryland, US. PHOTO: REUTERS

A member of street performance troupe Macnas participates in their 30th anniversary during the Halloween parade called Savage Grace in Galway, Ireland. PHOTO: AFP

Members of street performance troupe Macnas participate in their 30th anniversary during the Halloween parade called Savage Grace in Galway, Ireland. PHOTO: AFP

Iraqi Kurds pose with their make up as they prepare for Halloween in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. PHOTO: AFP

Japanese men wearing costumes, walk in a street during a Halloween parade in Tokyo. PHOTO: AFP

People gather along M Street NW in Georgetown for Halloween celebrations in Washington. PHOTO: AFP

Husband and wife Erik and April Torregroza catch a wave at Blackie's 10th annual Halloween Surf contest in Newport Beach, California. PHOTO: AFP

A tattoo artist works on a tattoo on a woman's arm during the second edition of the Halloween Tattoo Convention in Givors, east-central France. Around 50 tattoo artists from France took part in the two-day event, that offered shows, concerts and exhibitions ahead of Halloween. PHOTO: AFP

Participants dressed as clowns take part in a "Moto-Halloween party" along the streets in Cali. PHOTO: AFP

Che Shayne, dressed as a Robot, carries her surfboard to catch a wave during Blackie's 10th annual Halloween Surf contest in Newport Beach. PHOTO: AFP

A couple drive a motorcycle decorated as an ambulance during a "Moto-Halloween party" along the streets in Cali. PHOTO: AFP

Wearing costumes, participants join the Kawasaki Halloween parade in Kawasaki on October 30. PHOTO: AFP

This photo taken October 29, 2016 shows a Japanese woman in a costume checking her smart phone as she carries her daughter during a Halloween parade in Tokyo. PHOTO: AFP

Dogs dressed in Halloween costumes are displayed during the annual Haute Dog Howl'oween parade in Long Beach, California. PHOTO: AFP

This photo shows people in costumes gesturing as they take part in a Halloween parade in Tokyo. PHOTO: AFP

Japanese people in costumes gesturing as they take part in a Halloween parade in Tokyo. Tokyo nursed a giant pumpkin-sized hangover on October 31 after a weekend of Halloween revelry which saw blood-spattered ghouls, fluffy animals and 'terrifying' presidential candidates cut loose. PHOTO: AFP