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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 United States has given back to Mongolia the remains of a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus skeleton stolen from the Gobi Desert and sold at auction in New York. The nearly complete skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus bataar, a cousin of the fearsome T. rex, had been ...
Woolly mammoths stomp through the Siberian tundra. The giant moa strides the forest floor of New Zealand. Tasmania’s doglike “tigers” stalk their prey under the cover of night. This is not a snapshot of times past, nor the next sequel to Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic ...
New techniques for dating rocks have helped narrow the time frame of a chain of massive volcanic eruptions that wiped out half of the world’s species 200 million years ago, a study said Thursday. The result is the most precise date yet — 201,564,000 ...
Some primitive birds boasted four wings before evolution led them to ditch their hind feathers in favor of webbed or scaly feet, scientists said Thursday. Previous research had uncovered the existence of birdlike dinosaurs with hind limb feathers, but evidence has remained slim in ...
Scientists have found traces of a micro-continent hidden underneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, they said in a report published Sunday. The slab, dubbed Mauritia, was probably formed around 61 million to 83 million years ago after Madagascar split from India, but eventually ...