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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
Industrial machinery maker Hitachi Zosen Corp. wants to use its partnership with Statoil ASA to bring technology for floating offshore wind turbines to the Japanese market more quickly. Hitachi Zosen in November signed a technical cooperation accord with Statoil, Norway’s oil and gas producer. ...
The U.S. State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday, suggesting the project will have little impact on climate change. Canada’s oil sands will be developed even if U.S. President Barack Obama denies a permit to the ...
Taylor Wilson, 18, has designed a compact nuclear reactor that could one day burn waste from old atomic weapons to power anything from homes and factories to space colonies. The American teen, who gained fame four years ago after designing a fusion reactor he ...
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to create a comprehensive futures market for energy products at the Tokyo Commodity Exchange in 2014, sources said. The market will list energy products such as liquefied natural gas, coal, fuel oil and liquefied petroleum gas ...
A vote on whether to build a second nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, the EU member’s first referendum since the end of communism in 1989, looked set to fail Sunday because of insufficient turnout. Final exit poll counts showed that between 20.5 and 21.8 ...
Nine industry bodies, including the Japan Iron and Steel Federation and the Japan Mining Industry Association, urged the government Thursday to swiftly restart the nation’s atomic reactors and take steps to prevent higher electricity charges from impacting their businesses. The groups submitted a petition ...
Canada on Friday approved two major takeovers of energy firms by the Chinese state-owned giant CNOOC and Malaysia’s national oil company, Petronas — deals estimated to top $20 billion in total. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced regulatory approval for CNOOC’s $15.1 billion takeover of ...
A lawsuit was filed Friday by 154 people in Fukui and other prefectures seeking to shut down the only nuclear reactors now in operation in Japan, at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s power plant in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, contending Kepco had the two units restarted ...