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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
Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution, Russia’s last czar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of his family into an album that has now come to light in a Russian provincial museum. The photographs, most of which have never been ...
Dutch Queen Maxima has reached the zenith of her popularity both in the Netherlands and in her native Argentina after ascending the throne with her husband, King Willem-Alexander, last week, but calls remain for her to come clean on her father’s murky role in ...
The Netherlands’ Prince Willem-Alexander will become Europe’s youngest monarch when Queen Beatrix abdicates Tuesday as his country prepares to hail the avowedly 21st-century king with a massive orange-hued party. Willem-Alexander, who turns 46 on Saturday, will be the first Dutch king since 1890 and ...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will lead mourners at the April 17 funeral of Margaret Thatcher, the first time the monarch will have attended the ceremony of one of her former prime ministers since Winston Churchill died in 1965.
A Spanish judge named King Juan Carlos’ daughter Princess Cristina as a suspect in a corruption case on Wednesday, dealing a spectacular blow to the prestige of the royal family. The decision, the first time a direct relation of the king has been called ...
Queen singer Freddie Mercury disguised the late Princess Diana as a male model and smuggled her into a notorious gay bar, according to a memoir serialized in Britain’s Sunday Times. Comedian Cleo Rocos describes in her book “The Power of Positive Drinking” how she, ...
Prince William’s pregnant wife, Catherine, was given a badge to help expectant mothers get a seat on the London Underground when she accompanied Queen Elizabeth II on a visit Wednesday to mark the train network’s 150th anniversary. The queen, who was fulfilling her first ...
The identification of King Richard III’s skeleton is the latest coup by forensic scientists who use radiocarbon-dating, DNA analysis, 3-D scanning and other high-tech tools to unlock the secrets of the long dead. Other famous cases include: “Oetzi” the Iceman: In 1991, hikers in ...
King Abdullah appointed one of his brothers, Moqren bin Abdul Aziz, as deputy prime minister, on Friday, making him second in line to the throne, the official SPA news agency said. “Prince Moqren bin Abdul Aziz, adviser and special envoy of the king, has ...
Losing popularity and besieged by a corruption scandal that has reached all the way to the palace itself, Spain’s royals are looking to the dashing heir to the throne, Prince Felipe, to save their image. At the age 75, King Juan Carlos shows no ...
Prince William abandoned an event Sunday to be with his wife, Kate, as the Australian radio station engulfed in the row over the hoax phone call death promised to review its practices. William pulled out of attending a military tournament in London to spend ...
A nurse at the hospital that treated Prince William’s pregnant wife, Kate, has been found dead in a suspected suicide days after being duped by a hoax call from an Australian radio station. The royal couple said they were “deeply saddened” by Jacintha Saldanha’s ...