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Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
Tim Duncan saves the day as the Spurs hold off the Grizzlies in overtime
NAGOYA — World champion Mao Asada had a calamitous start to her Grand Prix season Friday night, finishing eighth in the short program at the NHK Trophy. Skating last before a raucous home crowd at Nippon Gaishi Arena, the Nagoya native two-footed the landing ...
NAGOYA — Mao Asada begins her quest for a third world title when she takes the ice at the Grand Prix season-opening NHK Trophy on Friday night in her native Nagoya. Though the pain of missing out on the Olympic gold medal to South ...
With world junior champion Kanako Murakami moving up to the senior ranks this season, there may have been some trepidation in Japanese skating circles about who would represent the next wave of young talent among the ladies. Those folks have to worry no more, ...
They can’t see the forest for the trees. Watching pundits both near and far weigh in on Ichiro Suzuki surpassing the 200-hit plateau for a record 10th straight season over the past week has been a test of patience. The stories have inevitably turned ...
The intrigue surrounding the split between South Korean Olympic gold medalist Kim Yu Na and coach Brian Orser seems to know no end. Just when it looked like things had calmed down after their surprising split last month, Kim switched ice rinks last week ...
Japan won’t waste any time showing off its four new world champions, according to the recently released Grand Prix assignments for the 2010-11 season. Mao Asada, Daisuke Takahashi, Kanako Murakami and Yuzuru Hanyu are all slated to compete in the season-opening NHK Trophy in ...
Two years after hosting the inaugural World Team Trophy, Japan has once again been selected to be the site of the six-nation, biennial event. The International Skating Union recently announced that the 2011 World Team Trophy will be held at Yokohama Arena next April ...
There seems to be no end to the ongoing drama that envelops the rivalry between Mao Asada and Kim Yu Na. The stakes rose considerably over the weekend after reports surfaced out of Seoul that Yu Na’s coach Brian Orser had been approached by ...
Ever think you had a fairly good idea of the popularity of a public figure only to be completely blown away when you truly found out? That’s the revelation Ice Time has been pondering for the past couple of weeks after staging a book ...
Mao Asada’s triumph at the world championships in Turin, Italy, last month capped off what was nothing short of an amazing season for Japanese skaters. For the first time ever, Japan boasts all four world titlists in the singles disciplines. Mao and Daisuke Takahashi ...
It’s not often in life that you get a second chance after squandering a golden opportunity. For Daisuke Takahashi, the bronze medalist at the Vancouver Games, it comes this week at the world championships in Turin, Italy. Two years ago, in Goteborg, Sweden, the ...
For the second time in three days Japan has a new world junior champion. Kanako Murakami moved from second place after the short program to win the ladies singles crown with a strong free skate on Saturday in The Hague. Trailing Russia’s Anna Ovcharova ...