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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
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, ...
Hyogo police acknowledged Wednesday they failed to maintain an adequate vigil on a 64-year-old female murder suspect who was on a suicide watch but nonetheless managed to hang herself in her cell last month. In their report on the apparent suicide, the prefectural force ...