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

There are three boxes. One is labeled "APPLES" another is labeled "ORANGES". The last one is labeled "APPLES AND ORANGES". You know that each is labeled incorrectly. You may ask me to pick one fruit from one box which you choose.

How can you label the boxes correctly?

Sherlock breaks into a crime scene. The victim is the owner who is slumped dead on a chair and have a bullet hole in his head. A gun lies on the floor and a cassette recorder is found on the table. On pressing the play button, Sherlock hears the message 'I have committed sins in my life and now I offer my soul to the great Lord' and followed a gunshot Sherlock smiles and informed the police that's its a murder.

Why did he think so?

You were playing ping pong with your friend. Suddenly the ball fell into a narrow metal pipe that was imbedded in the concrete surface of the floor one foot deep. Now you don't have any other ball and you desperately want to take it out and play. You and your friend have your shoelaces, your tennis paddle and a plastic water bottle. However, the bottle cannot fit into the pipe.

How will you take the ball out?

Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I?

A Doctor always sneezes before the rain. Doctor sneezes, Will it rain?

I know a country, If you remove the last alphabet of its name, it will become a part of your body. Do you name it?

When it's bad luck to meet a black cat?

Can you solve the below rebus?

What mathematical symbol can be put between 5 and 9, to get a number bigger than 5 and smaller than 9?