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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
Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create Monday’s massive killer tornado in Oklahoma. The awesome amount of energy released dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. On Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service gave the tornado the top-of-the-scale rating of ...
Rescue efforts in the wake of the Oklahoma tornado that killed 24 people near an end, as it emerges the twister was far more powerful than first thought.
A monstrous tornado at least 800 meters wide roars through Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods, destroying an elementary school and killing at least 91 people, including at least 20 children.
One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park into rubble and sent frightened residents scurrying for shelter. One person was reported killed and at least 21 people were injured across the state. The tornadoes that touched ...
Chinese authorities say rainstorms that battered southern China last week killed 55 people and left another 14 missing. The Ministry of Civil Affairs’ website says at least nine provinces had storms, flooding and landslides since Tuesday. It said Guangdong Province was hit the hardest, ...
A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar’s western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal. Tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya ...
The Japanese archipelago experienced both wintry and summerlike temperatures Monday, with snow falling on the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido and the mercury rising in areas ranging from eastern to southwestern Japan, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Snow accumulation of up to 14 centimeters ...
A lightning bolt is one of nature’s most over-the-top phenomena, rarely failing to elicit at least a ping of awe no matter how many times a person has witnessed one. With his iconic kite-and-key experiments in the mid-18th century, Benjamin Franklin showed that lightning ...
Levels of carbon dioxide rose hand in hand with warming at the end of the last Ice Age, according to a study that deals a blow to climate skeptics. French researchers said Thursday that they had answered a riddle that has perplexed scientists. The ...
Sukayu, a hot springs resort area in Aomori Prefecture, registers the largest snowfall ever recorded by the nation's currently existing observatories.
The U.S. Northeast slowly dug out Saturday from a mammoth blizzard that caused at least seven deaths, left some 650,000 homes and businesses without power and choked air, road and rail travel. The storm in areas still scarred by last October’s Superstorm Sandy dumped ...
Snow fell Wednesday over wide areas of Japan, mainly in mountainous regions, due to a low pressure system, the Meteorological Agency said. Up to 6 cm was recorded in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in the morning, up to 3 cm in the city of Nagano, ...