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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
Two men with butcher knives hack another to death near a London military barracks and one then go on video to explain the crime — shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat cleaver.
The White House acknowledged publicly for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes ...
A Chechen man linked to one of the Boston bombing suspects is shot and killed in an unusual encounter ...
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 ...
A bill to legalize gay marriage in Britain passed a crucial hurdle in Parliament on Tuesday, despite efforts by lawmakers from Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party to wreck the plans. Members of the House of Commons voted 366-161 in favor of the same-sex ...
Scientists said Tuesday they had managed to kill lab-grown tuberculosis bacteria with good old Vitamin C — an “unexpected” discovery they hope will lead to better, cheaper drugs. A team from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York made the accidental find while ...
Flying high above Europe’s economic crisis, a local lightning-fast pigeon called Bolt became the world’s most expensive racing bird when his Belgian breeder sold it for €310,000 ($400,000) to a Chinese businessman. One-year-old Bolt, named after the Jamaican Olympic superstar sprinter Usain Bolt, and ...
Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create Monday’s massive killer tornado in Oklahoma. The awesome amount of energy released dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. On Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service gave the tornado the top-of-the-scale rating of ...
Justin Bieber’s pet monkey is no longer his. The capuchin monkey named Mally was seized by German customs on March 28 when the 19-year-old Canadian pop star failed to produce the required vaccination and import papers after landing in Munich for a European tour. ...
The administration is planning legislation that would encourage new entrants in the health fitness industry, a sector Prime Minister Shinzo Abe views as promising, through tax and financial support, sources said. The plan will be one of the pillars of the Abe team’s growth ...
Japan Post Holdings Co. said Wednesday it will appoint former Toshiba Corp. Chairman Taizo Nishimuro as its president to replace Atsuo Saka as part of a large-scale management reshuffle. Nishimuro, 77, currently serves as chairman of a committee to oversee progress in the privatization ...
A 1997 first edition of “Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone” annotated by J.K. Rowling sold for £150,000 ($227,000) at a London auction Tuesday, a new record for a printed book by the writer. Two bidders battled it out for the work before the ...
One Pistorius brother is free of charges — acquitted Tuesday of culpable homicide in the death of a woman in a road accident. The famous younger brother, Olympian and double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, still must face his day in court for shooting and killing his ...
Wireless company Sprint Nextel Corp. says it can now let Dish Network Corp. see its books and talk with Dish to see whether its competing offer to buy Sprint is better than its current deal with Softbank. Sprint said late Monday that Softbank had ...
French actor Gerard Depardieu will star in a drama about a Chechen man who seeks revenge for the killing of his son. Chechnya has been in the spotlight since it emerged that the suspects in April’s Boston Marathon bombing are ethnic Chechens. The predominantly ...