A letter allegedly tainted with a poisonous substance was sent to South Africa's top prosecutor, who is pursuing corruption cases against senior government leaders and politicians, his office said Monday.
Radioactive traces have now been found on two British Airways passenger planes currently grounded at London’s Heathrow Airport, the UK Home Office announced on Wednesday. Three other planes, also suspected of contamination, are now being examined, on Thursday.
A 13-year-old girl convicted of attempting to kill two classmates by slipping rat poison into their milk was sentenced to up to 12 years in a juvenile detention center.
There is clear evidence that small amounts of fluoride, at or near levels added to U.S. water supplies, present potential risks to the thyroid gland, according to the National Research Council's (NRC) first-ever published review of the fluoride/thyroid literature.
"It does not take long to find a different type of ant just south of Houston in Pearland, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday. An exterminator said the ants are getting easier and easier to find, but are impossible to get rid of."
My father might have been the first organic florist in New York City. He was running late for one of my childhood birthday parties when reaching for mouthwash mistakenly grabbed Chlordane. Funny though, he was never stung by a bee, wasp or hornet post gargle.
An organization in California has filed suit in a U.S. District Court and Los Angeles Superior Court against CBS Broadcasting,Planet Toys Inc. and several retailers.
The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a "pesticide" and the plan is to douse cities with this chemical designed to stick on everything for 90 days or longer. This application is not a one time event, but will continue every 1-3 months for as long as five years.
Officers who found the deadly poison ricin in a Las Vegas, Nevada, extended-stay hotel room also discovered firearms and an "anarchist-type textbook" with an entry about ricin bookmarked, police said Friday.
A woman who tried to kill her husband by putting anti-freeze into his curry and wine has been jailed for 30 years. Kate Knight, 28, was found guilty of the attempted murder of Lee Knight at their home in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in 2005.
" Authorities were called to an Extended Stay America hotel around 3 p.m. after a man brought a bag holding a small container to the manager's office. The man said he found it while retrieving items from a hotel room.
By: John E. Fiorentino The headlines said: "Scientists prove Napoleon not poisoned by British." But is this a scientifically supportable conclusion?
"Poverty in early childhood poisons the brain." That was the opening of an article in Saturday's Financial Times, summarizing research presented last week at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Italian scientists say they have proved Napoleon was not poisoned, scotching the legend the French emperor was murdered by his British jailors.
Nearly a year after a nationwide pet food recall affected millions of Americans and their pets, the U.S.
If you use a bottle made from plastic to feed your baby, you probably shouldn't. A citizen's organiztion has tested 3 different brands of bottles and found the substance bisphenol A (BPA) leaches from certain plastic bottles apon heating.
The safety of China's food industry was called into question again today with reports that dozens of people in Japan have become ill after eating imported dumplings containing insecticide.
Chinese dumplings which were laced with pesticide and made at least 10 Japanese people ill were probably poisoned on purpose, Japan's health minister says.
China on Thursday said it had stopped production at and exports from a company whose insecticide-tainted frozen dumplings sickened dozens in Japan, in the latest crisis to rock China's food export business.
Democratic leaders of a House science subcommittee alleged yesterday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency manipulated scientific research into the potential danger posed by a toxic gas emitted in trailers still housing tens of thousands of survivors of hurricanes Katrina …
A woman was found guilty today of attempting to murder her husband by putting anti-freeze in his curry.
CBS News has learned that the Centers for Disease Control, the nation's top public health agency, suppressed repeated warnings from one of its top scientists, raising questions about whether the CDC bowed to pressure from FEMA to conceal the long-term health risks of formaldehyde …
A national review into the poison, 1080 has resulted in new labelling for the pest control chemical and restrictions on aerial baiting. The RSPCA has criticised the review, saying it ignores the cruelty of 1080 baiting.
Toxic imports, like lead paint in toys, are the result of trading with much lesser-developed countries which have no incentive to raise safety, labor or environmental standards. Cheap goods from countries like China have an expensive price.
When he was running for office, Mr Sarkozy persuaded "Mosey", the elder of his two blond sons with his Corsican first wife, to stop wearing dreadlocks.
An Englishman sent poisoned drinks to public figures as part of a plot to try to force the British government out of Scotland, a court was told today.
University of Minnesota Center for Drug Design and Minneapolis VA Medical Center researchers have discovered a new fast-acting antidote to cyanide poisoning.