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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 state-run operator of South Korea’s nuclear power plants has separated its internal computer network from the Internet in an effort to guard against possible North Korean cyber attacks, Yonhap News Agency reported Sunday. It said Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. has also ...
South Korean and U.S. forces raise their alert status to "vital threat" ahead of an expected North Korean missile test, as tensions soar in the run-up to a key anniversary.
A currency surging in value at a breathtaking rate and belonging to no nation is being hailed as a revolution in "financial free speech" by its diverse group of users.
Cheon Joon Sahng may not look like an elite warrior, but the shy South Korean high school student has been fully trained for a frontline role in any future cyberbattle with North Korea.
In an unusually direct appeal, the Obama administration on Monday called on China to halt its persistent theft of trade secrets from corporate computers and engage in a dialogue to establish norms of behavior in cyberspace. The demands mark the administration’s first public effort ...
The Android operating system accounts for 79 percent of all malware infections on smartphones and the threat is multiplying, a security firm said Thursday. Finland’s F-Secure said in a report that the free Google operating system, which has been gaining smartphone market share globally, ...
China is awash with nondescript new office buildings, so the 12-story tower in Shanghai’s Pudong area hardly looked likely to cause global headlines. Not even propaganda posters on walls surrounding it or People’s Liberation Army guards standing at the gates made the building stand ...
The White House moved Friday to make nearly all federally funded research freely available to the public, the latest advance in a long-running battle over access to research that exploded into view last month after the suicide of free-information activist Aaron Swartz. In a ...
Apple said it was hit by hackers who wormed their way into the company’s system but evidently failed to steal any data. The firm said Tuesday it is working with law enforcement officials to hunt down the hackers, who appeared tied to a series ...
Mandiant says it was able to track an extensive hacking campaign back to the Chinese military in part by exploiting China’s own Web restrictions. China’s “Great Firewall” blocks Web access to, among other things, Facebook and Twitter. People in China can get around the ...
The Chinese Army controls some of the most prolific hackers in the world, an Internet security firm that traced a host of cyber-attacks to an anonymous building in Shanghai reports.
The Secret Service said Friday that it is investigating the theft of numerous personal emails from members of the Bush family, after an apparent hacker leaked the emails and Bush family photos to the Smoking Gun news website. The Smoking Gun’s report, posted late ...