Halloween has become a global phenomenon marked by celebrations throughout the world, involving parades, costumes and trick-or-treating.
Here is a selection of photos of Halloween festivities from the past few days.
Costumed performers taking part in the annual Paisley Halloween Festival, Scotland.
Participants dressed as zombies take part in a Zombie Walk parade in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Two-year-old Leo Jackson was dressed as a skeleton while picking pumpkins at Streamvale Open Farm in Belfast.
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump handed out sweets during a White House event.
The sculpture has been placed in the street ahead of the Day of the Dead celebrations on 1 and 2 November.
A woman attends the Whitby Goth Weekend in Yorkshire, when hundreds of goths descend on the seaside town where Bram Stoker found inspiration for Dracula.