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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
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 husband and father who traveled to ...
Flying high above Europe’s economic crisis, a local lightning-fast pigeon called Bolt became the world’s most expensive racing bird when ...
Life in the Sunshine State just got a lot sunnier for one lucky lottery player, after officials announced Sunday that ...
Residents of a New York City apartment building are up in arms over an exhibition of candid photographs one of their neighbors took of them without their knowledge or permission. “The Neighbors,” a gallery show of the pictures surreptitiously taken by American photographer Arne ...
Underground commuters in Prague who are looking for love will soon be able to try their luck in designated dating cars, a transport spokesman said Friday. “People meet there, pass by each other, and if they like one another they can start a relationship,” ...
Chris Hadfield, who crawled out of a space capsule on the plains of Kazakhstan early Tuesday, is dealing with gravity for the first time in five months and sudden global celebrity after singing a gone-viral made-in-space music video. By late Wednesday, almost 10 million ...
A California woman slapped a police officer to get arrested and go to jail in hope she can quit smoking there. Etta Mae Lopez pleaded no contest Thursday to smacking Sacramento County sheriff’s Deputy Matt Campoy earlier in the week after he left the ...
Taking their cue from nature, engineers have built a camera using stretchable electronics that scans the world like a fly's compound eye — with a wide field of view and no distortion.
The roving coralgrouper uses sign language to advise fellow hunters of hiding prey, according to a study published Tuesday. Reporting in the journal Nature Communications, three biologists studied how the coralgrouper works with two hunting pals. Previous research has shed light on the unusual ...
Are you crazy enough to sign up for a one-way trip to Mars? Applications are now being accepted by the makers of a Dutch reality show that says it will deliver the first humans to the red planet in 10 years. The main requirements ...
It’s been frozen, baked, suffocated and sprayed with toxins — and each time the bedbug bounces back, leaving tiny bite marks on legs or arms where it has feasted on an unwitting host’s blood. But thanks to a combination of Balkan folklore and nanoscale ...
The eternal question of whether penis size matters to women has been probed by a team of international scientists who reported Monday that yes, ladies do find larger men more attractive. What’s more, prehistoric women who could see the sex organs of their scantily ...
Queen singer Freddie Mercury disguised the late Princess Diana as a male model and smuggled her into a notorious gay bar, according to a memoir serialized in Britain’s Sunday Times. Comedian Cleo Rocos describes in her book “The Power of Positive Drinking” how she, ...
Nothing is more likely to inspire us to see for ourselves than a warning about the effects of looking. Take the media interest this month when it was revealed that the British Museum’s exhibition, “Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum,” is to include ...
An ancient statue of Mars has lost its fake penis and his counterpart Venus her hands, reversing the cosmetic changes ordered by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a newspaper reported Wednesday. In 2010, Berlusconi decided the two marble statues adorning the official residence ...