What's the next in the series?

H, Be, F, S, Mn, Kr, In, Gd, Tl, ?

I can write cow in 13 letters.

Can You?

Why despite killing dozens of people Charley and Wilma were not punished?

I have no life, but I can die. What am I?

Two batsman each on 94 runs. Seven runs needed to win in last 3 balls. Both make 100*. How?

Why is the Hole below a Lock?

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, "If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50." The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

Alex is stranded on an island covered in forest.
One day, when the wind is blowing from the west, lightning strikes the west end of the island and sets fire to the forest. The fire is very violent, burning everything in its path, and without intervention the fire will burn the whole island, killing the man in the process.

There are cliffs around the island, so he cannot jump off.

How can the Alex survive the fire? (There are no buckets or any other means to put out the fire)

What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?

Can you think of a smallest +ve number such that if we shuffle the digits of the number, the new number becomes double the original number?