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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
With a brilliant performance on Saturday, Akiko Suzuki carries Japan to a bronze-medal finish at the World Team Trophy.
Mao Asada’s recent proclamation at the World Team Trophy that she “intends” to retire after next year’s Sochi Olympics took ...
Daisuke Takahashi came from behind to win the men’s singles on Friday night to keep Japan in the hunt for ...
Akiko Suzuki and Daisuke Takahashi lift Japan to the top of the World Team Trophy standings.
It is as if time has stood still. Three years after her record-setting performance in winning the gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics, Kim Yu Na put on a sensational show in capturing her second world title last week in London, Ontario. It was ...
Patrick Chan wins his third consecutive title at the World Figure Skating Championships.
Burgeoning teenage talent Yuzuru Hanyu will be looking to sparkle with a gem of a performance for Sendai when the world championships start this week. Sendai-born Hanyu will be competing at the worlds just days after the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, ...
Mao Asada leads a Japanese sweep of the women's medals at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
Mao Asada lands a triple axel and wins the women's short program at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships.
Yuzuru Hanyu, the 2012 national champion, wins the men's short program with an impressive performance at the Four Continents.
"The level I am at now is the best for now, but I want to push myself even more looking toward the world championships," says the two-time world champion.
Reigning Grand Prix Final men’s figure skating champion Daisuke Takahashi said Saturday he plans on retiring after the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. “I think my amateur career will end with Sochi,” said the 26-year-old Takahashi, who took part in an ice dance exhibition the ...
Sixteen-year-old Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, the junior world championship runnerup and Youth Olympics winner, clinched her first Russian figure skating title on Thursday despite coming close to pulling out through injury. Tuktamysheva, who won with a personal best of 196.57 points, had complained of a foot ...
Yevgeny Plushenko overcame severe back pain to clinch his 10th Russian figure skating title on Wednesday on the same Sochi ice where the 2014 Winter Olympics will take place. Former triple world champion Plushenko, the 2006 Olympic gold medalist, who was leading the men’s ...
Russia’s 2006 Olympic champion Evgeni Plushenko grabbed the lead in the men’s competition at the Russian figure skating championships on Tuesday at the venue in Sochi where he hopes to crown his career with a second Olympic title in 2014. The 30-year-old former three-time ...