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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
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatches a high-profile official and close confidant to China at a time of strained relations and ahead of a China-U.S. summit.
If you’re American and want to do business in Myanmar, there’s a list of people and companies you have to ...
The U.S. and Myanmar struck a trade agreement Tuesday as the former pariah state undertakes economic reforms and seeks greater ...
Two emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei as he eats, sleeps, paces, showers — and even sits on the toilet — in the artist’s new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking China’s state power. The video accompanying the visual artist’s single “Dumbass” — released Wednesday ...
An Indian climber who lost her leg after she was thrown from a moving train two years ago has become the first female amputee to climb Everest, the expedition organizers said Wednesday. Arunima Sinha, 26, from Uttar Pradesh, reached the peak Tuesday morning. “She ...
The number of women jailed in Afghanistan for “moral crimes” such as fleeing abusive husbands has risen sharply, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday, undermining claims that the status of women has improved. The campaign group said Interior Ministry statistics revealed that the number of ...
Around 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan will be allowed to stay in Britain, the government revealed Wednesday. Prime Minister David Cameron initially opposed calls to allow interpreters and their families to settle in Britain, but ...
The Czech Republic’s new president, Milos Zeman, has ignited a row with the country’s university community after he blocked the professorship of a critic who marched in a gay rights rally. In a move the council of higher education dubbed “an unprecedented interference” in ...
Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. It’s the first suicide in decades at the ...
President Barack Obama will hold his first summit with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in California next month, with Sino-U.S. relations rattled by alleged cyberspying by Beijing and tensions in the Pacific. Obama will welcome Xi to the plush Sunnylands estate resort in Palm ...
North Korea’s test-firings of six short-range projectiles in three days may not reflect a return to a pattern of provocations by Kim Jong Un’s regime, according to the U.S. military’s top spokesman. The launches don’t in themselves end a “provocation pause” and “do not ...
Elderly residents in a small town in Mie Prefecture consider 22-year-old Mao Higashi a great help when she delivers food from her truck.
Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s presumptive prime minister, on Monday called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country’s powerful army. Sharif said “terrorism” is one of the most serious ...
Gunmen wearing North Korean military uniforms beat up the captain of a seized Chinese fishing boat and stole its fuel during two weeks of captivity, but eventually released the boat and crew Tuesday without the ransom they had demanded, the boat owner said. The ...
The family of a U.S. scientist found hanged in Singapore last year walked out of a coroner’s inquiry into their son’s death Tuesday, saying they had “lost faith” in the proceedings. The move came after their star witness, a U.S. pathologist who never examined ...