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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
The devastating effect of Alzheimer’s disease on bilingual people has been thrown into focus in Canada, where the sudden loss of a second language can leave sufferers feeling like strangers in their own country. Despite increasing evidence that bilingualism can actually delay the onset ...
Middle-aged men are quitting paid work to care for elderly parents in increasing numbers, a new study shows. According to the study by the Institute for Research on Household Economics, 13.4 percent of men aged between 40 and 64 living with parents requiring nursing ...
What does your DNA really reveal about your health? It sounded enticing: For just $99, I could spit into a tube, mail it off to a company called 23andMe, and, six to eight weeks later, receive a report explaining what my DNA reveals about ...
The puck was skittering around center ice when Bill Oliver gathered it in with his stick, weaved his way through traffic into the offensive zone, skated free of a closing defenseman and wristed a shot into the corner of the net. Oliver is 72 ...
It turns out that our ancestors — meat-eating or tuber-loving, Mediterranean or Arctic, roaming or sedentary — all could have used some medicine to help prevent heart disease. A new study of 137 mummified bodies, some as old as 3,500 years, found a high ...
Last July, a lay judge panel in Osaka handed down a 20-year prison sentence to a man convicted of killing his sister after the prosecution had only asked for 16 years. Earlier this month the Osaka High Court reduced that sentence to 14 years, ...
In the hunt for ways to extend life, scientists are turning to an unlikely source: the gas that gives rotten eggs their foul smell. Hydrogen sulfide — maligned for its toxic and explosive properties — may slow aging and block damaging chemical reactions inside ...
Citing the introduction of new regulations in July, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said Wednesday it will not accept applications from utilities seeking permission to run their reactors beyond 30 years under existing procedures. To address concerns about aging reactors, nuclear plant operators have been ...
Single-person households in 2035 will account for 37.2 percent of all households in Japan, up 4.8 percentage points from 2010, according to estimates in a new report. The National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, which released the report Friday, attributed the rise ...