Topic: Poisoning
AP Features | 2010-02-22 04:08:04
"The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York" (Penguin, 336 pages, $25.95), by Deborah Blum: How do I poison thee? Let me count the ways: arsenic, mercury, strychnine, chloroform, wood alcohol and carbon monoxide. These were just a few of the options available to would-be murderers whose crimes less than a ...
AP News | 2010-01-17 14:51:28
A man weeps while visiting the grave of a relative killed in a 1988 chemical attack in Halabja in northern Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin "Chemical Ali" was convicted Sunday of crimes against humanity and ...
AP News | 2009-11-09 07:01:21
<div id="subtitle">Communist Party official dies of excessive drinking in eastern China, the third case in a year</div><div><p>A Communist Party official in China has died from excessive drinking, the third such alcohol poisoning case that highlights the problems of a drinking culture connected with government and business ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-10-16 17:00:48
<div><p>Authorities in central China plan to move 15,000 residents away from smelting plants in the area after nearly 1,000 children tested positive for lead poisoning, state media said on Friday.</p><p>Zhao Suping, mayor of Jiyuan city in Henan province, said the mass relocation would cost one ...
