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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
Lean and focused would be a good way to characterize the recently launched lineups from Japan’s three top cellphone carriers.
Softbank Corp. plans to sell ¥400 billion in bonds targeting individual investors to fund its $20.1 billion purchase of Sprint Nextel Corp. The mobile phone company will price the five-year notes to yield from 1.25 percent to 2.25 percent on June 3, according to ...
Softbank Corp. has eclipsed industry leader NTT DoCoMo Inc. in market capitalization, making it the most valuable mobile phone firm on the stock market. Shares of Softbank, the parent of Softbank Mobile Corp., surged 4.56 percent to close at ¥5,960 on Wednesday, lifting its ...
Softbank Corp., bidding to take over Sprint Nextel Corp. in a $20.1 billion deal, is planning a new Silicon Valley office for the U.S. carrier that would employ as many as 1,000 people. Executives have already started holding monthly meetings in the California technology ...
Softbank Corp. said it will launch this summer a health care service package for its smartphones that includes monitoring daily health conditions and fitness information as well as 24-hour telephone counseling. At a news conference Tuesday where the firm also released its new handset ...
Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son lashed out at fellow billionaire Charlie Ergen, saying he doesn’t have the expertise to run Sprint Nextel Corp., the U.S. mobile phone company both men are trying to take over. Ergen, the chairman of Dish Network Corp., doesn’t have ...
KDDI and Softbank said Tuesday that they posted record high sales and operating profit in the business year through March 31 thanks to the hugely popularity of the Apple iPhone, which is continuing to contribute to their growth. Non-iPhone provider NTT DoCoMo reported last ...
U.S. satellite TV company Dish Network Corp. has asked the Federal Communications Commission to suspend its evaluation of Softbank Corp.’s bid for U.S. cellphone provider Sprint Nextel Corp., sources said Thursday. The announcement of Dish’s $25.5 billion bid for Sprint on April 15 constituted ...
Softbank Corp. said Tuesday its agreement last October to acquire Sprint Nextel Corp. is pretty much a done deal, as the mobile service giant responded to a new counter bid from U.S. satellite television provider Dish Network Corp. “The Softbank-Sprint transaction is in the ...
A former Nokia Oyj engineer is building a private social network in China where children share art projects online with parents or grandparents. Japan’s phone and Internet giant Softbank Corp. is betting he’ll succeed. SmarTots, Jesper Lodahl’s Beijing-based startup, began offering mobile education applications ...
NTT DoCoMo Inc. is ready to return to investing in phone companies outside Asia after rival Softbank Corp.’s deal to acquire a majority stake in Sprint Nextel Corp. in the U.S., its chief executive officer said. “The acquisition plan of Sprint was quite astonishing ...
Strong iPhone sales allowed Softbank Corp. to log a record group operating profit and KDDI Corp. to post firm profit growth from last April to December. But NTT DoCoMo Inc., which does not market Apple Inc.’s hugely popular smartphone, saw its operating profit fall ...