I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

I am something people love or hate. I change peoples appearances and thoughts. If a person takes care of them self I will go up even higher. To some people I will fool them. To others I am a mystery. Some people might want to try and hide me but I will show. No matter how hard people try I will Never go down. What am I?

I am lying and I always lie. Tell me whether I am lying or telling the truth.

I never stop running even when I standstill. If I am formed by joining two identical bodies together, can you guess who I am?

Something Extraordinary happened on May 6th 19778 at 12:34am what was that?

I travel all around the world but always stay in the corner. What am I?

I ask Joseph to pick any 5 cards out of a deck with no Jokers.

He can inspect then shuffle the deck before picking any five cards. He picks out 5 cards then hands them to me (Jack can't see any of this). I look at the cards and I pick 1 card out and give it back to Joseph. I then arrange the other four cards in a special way, and give those 4 cards all face down, and in a neat pile, to Jack.

Jack looks at the 4 cards i gave him, and says out loud which card Joseph is holding (suit and number). How?

The solution uses pure logic, not sleight of hand. All Jack needs to know is the order of the cards and what is on their face, nothing more.

I am a three digit number.
My tens digit is five more than my ones digit.
My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit.
What number am I?

There's one "sport" in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

What is it?

There is something which you can be arrested for attempting but not for successfully completing.