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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
An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town, and investigators are looking into whether he suffered a medical emergency before the accident. About 50 to 60 people suffered injuries ranging from critical to ...
Officials opened an investigation Saturday into a rush-hour collision between two commuter trains that injured more than 70 passengers and severed a key rail link. Train service in the busy Northeast corridor from New York City to New Haven, Connecticut, used by tens of ...
Some of the world’s largest retailers have agreed to a first-of-its-kind pact to improve safety at some of Bangladesh’s garment factories following a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers in the country last month. The move comes just days shy of a ...
A fire in a garment factory in Bangladesh has killed eight people, including a top official in the country’s powerful clothing manufacturers’ trade group, while the death toll from the collapse of another garment building passed 900 on Thursday. The fire Wednesday night raced ...
An engine on a Bombardier CRJ200 operated by a Japan Airlines Co. group firm catches fire after landing at an Osaka airport.
Police on Wednesday raided the operator of Wonderland, an amusement park in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, a day after a 6-year-old boy was injured on a roller coaster. The boy suffered a fractured rib after being thrown out of the front seat of a two-seat ...
A limousine carrying Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is involved in a pileup on Saturday with four other government vehicles carrying security guards at an automated toll gate in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.
A memorial ceremony was held Thursday for the 107 people killed in the horrific train derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture in 2005, marking the eighth anniversary of the accident. At 9:18 a.m., the time at which the train jumped the tracks, the victims’ families, ...
The Utsunomiya District Court on Wednesday ordered the former driver of a truck-mounted crane who killed six schoolchildren in a 2011 accident, his mother and former company to pay about ¥125 million in damages to the victims’ parents. Presiding Judge Akihiko Iwatsubo said the ...
About 5 tons of liquid waste containing sodium cyanide leak from a plating factory in Iwate, but the operator says it has retrieved most of the toxic fluid and received no reports of health issues.
Forty-two people were injured, two of them seriously, when a tourist bus crashed through guardrails and plunged onto a railway track Sunday in Oita Prefecture, according to police. The bus, carrying 43 passengers, was passing through the town of Kokonoe when it careered off ...
A section of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine collapsed under the weight of snow, officials said Wednesday, raising new concerns about the condition of the facility, which suffered the world’s worst nuclear catastrophe. There were no injuries after Tuesday’s accident or any ...