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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
In the wake of claims of physical and verbal abuse made by national women’s judo team members, a Kyodo News survey on Sunday found that training staff in two additional sports admitting knowing of physical abuse. In a questionnaire distributed to coaches and development ...
The Japanese Olympic Committee announced Friday that the representatives of all 31 Olympic sports federations it questioned over two days said no abuse exists within their organizations at the national level. The questioning was the first step in an investigation by the JOC into ...
In response to allegations of physical and verbal abuse in the national women’s judo team, the Japanese Olympic Committee on Thursday began investigating abuse in its other affiliated federations, with 13 of the bodies questioned telling media they were free of abuse. For two ...
Envoys for the Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee left Japan on Sunday for Lausanne, Switzerland, where they will present the International Olympic Committee with Tokyo’s candidature file on Monday. Among those making the presentation will be bid committee CEO Masato Mizuno, silver medal-winning women’s soccer ...
Reigning FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year Homare Sawa will present Tokyo’s candidature file for the 2020 Olympics to the International Olympic Committee next month, the Tokyo bid committee announced Friday. “We must make the bid a success at all costs,” said new ...
Doha will make a fresh bid to bring the Summer Olympics to the Middle East for the first time in 2024, having missed out on the 2020 Games. Oil-rich Qatar, named as surprise host for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, failed to make the ...
Britain’s Zaha Hadid Architects have won the design competition for Tokyo’s new National Stadium that will be used as the main venue for the 2020 Olympics if the city wins the right to stage the Games, the Japan Sport Council announced Thursday. Iraqi-born Zaha ...
Sebastian Coe was elected as the new chairman of the British Olympic Association (BOA) on Wednesday. Coe, the firm favorite for the role after masterminding London’s successful staging of the 2012 Olympics, was elected unopposed after rival candidate Richard Leman, the head of British ...
Madrid has the highest public support for its 2020 Summer Olympics bid, according to the latest figures released by the Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid committee on Tuesday. Madrid’s public support stands at 80.7 percent, Istanbul’s is at 73 percent and Tokyo’s 67. In Tokyo, ...
Turkey’s strong economy should be a positive factor in convincing enough International Olympic Committee members to elect Istanbul as the host of the 2020 Summer Olympics and become the first edition to be hosted on two continents its bid chief told said in an ...
Madrid winning the right to host the 2020 Olympic Summer Games would deliver just the boost that is needed as Spain battles against a grueling recession, the bid leader Alejandro Blanco said in an interview. The 62-year-old president of the Spanish National Olympic Committee, ...
A prominent Turkish journalist believes that the ongoing dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands could affect the outcome of the voting for the 2020 Olympics, thereby making Istanbul’s path to victory easier. Sports editor Cetin Cem Yilmaz, of the English-language Hurriyet ...