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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 Korea Sunday test-fired a short-range missile off its east coast, its fourth in two days, despite pleas from South Korea and the U.N. chief to halt the launches at a time of high tensions. The guided missile was fired into the Sea of ...
A hot cup of Ceylon tea is better known as being soothing and relaxing, but Sri Lanka is now marketing its most profitable export as a luxury boost for the libido. The tea industry is increasingly plugging Ceylon’s supposed aphrodisiac qualities in a bid ...
India says all issues will be “on the table,” including a recent border spat and a festering trade imbalance, during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to the South Asian giant, which started Sunday. At the same time, New Delhi thinks “very highly” of Li’s ...
Gunmen killed a Pakistani politician from Imran Khan’s party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of a partial rerun of May 11 polls that were marked by more than 150 killings. Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women’s wing ...
South Korea on Sunday condemned North Korea’s latest short-range missile launches as “provocative” and again urged it to hold talks about a suspended jointly run industrial park. Officials in Seoul on Sunday said the North fired another projectile into waters off its eastern coast ...
Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China’s domestic satellite navigation system, which was launched as a rival to the U.S. Global Positioning System, a report said Saturday. The Beidou, or Compass, system started providing services to civilians in the ...
An investigation into whether Wal-Mart may have bribed Indian officials to gain wider access to the country’s vast market has been “closed” due to lack of evidence, a report said Saturday. The one-man committee of retired Justice Mukul Mudgal probing the matter is likely ...
The former head of Hong Kong’s anticorruption agency attended an inquiry Saturday by legislators over alleged lavish spending and misuse of public money. Timothy Tong, the former commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, allegedly overspent on business meals and gifts, treating mainland Chinese ...
Rising house prices in New Zealand will increase the pressure on the central bank to raise interest rates, Finance Minister Bill English said Sunday. “These households heading into quite high debt to buy highly priced houses need to be aware at some stage the ...
North Korea fires three short-range missiles as the totalitarian state showcases its military ambitions in defiance of international sanctions.
The Philippines on Saturday rejected Taiwan’s allegations that its coast guard had intentionally murdered a Taiwanese fisherman whose death has triggered a major diplomatic spat. Hong Shi-cheng, a 65-year-old fisherman, was shot dead by the Philippine Coast Guard, who said his vessel intruded into ...
T-shirts bearing images of U.S. President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s prodemocracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It’s a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became ...