Robert Siegel talks with John Emsley, author of The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison, about the poisoning of Russian-spy-turned-Kremlin-critic Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko died last ...

LONDON, Nov. 24 -- Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned by a radioactive substance, traces of which were found in his urine, at his home and at a London restaurant and hotel he ...

Many Londoners and other Europeans spent a frightening weekend wondering if they too might have been exposed to the deadly radioactive toxin Polonium-210. This comes after several British Airways ...

Among the few authorized uses of polonium 210 is an industrial application: removing static. A tiny amount of the radioactive compound is seated in a device attached to steel machinery spinning ...

LONDON — A British Cabinet minister accused President Putin of Russia of “attacks on individual liberty and on democracy” and acknowledged yesterday that relations with Moscow were strained after a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has warned of a robust response if it finds evidence of Russian involvement in the collapse of a former Russian agent convicted of betraying dozens of spies to British ...

MOSCOW -- Ninety-seven percent of the legal production of one of the world's rarest industrial products -- the intensely radioactive isotope polonium-210 -- takes place at a closely guarded nuclear ...

We don’t yet know what has led to Ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, to collapse on a bench on Sunday in the UK, but, a nerve agent has been implicated. 180 military personnel, ...

PARIS - Yasser Arafat was not the victim of poisoning, French forensic tests concluded on Tuesday, countering the theory put forward by a Swiss report on the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader. The ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Swiss scientists have found evidence suggesting that Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with a radioactive substance, a TV station reported Wednesday, prompting new allegations ...

Yasser Arafat lived in ambiguity and died under circumstances shrouded in mystery and rumor. Should it come as any great surprise that the outcome of a scientific inquiry into the cause of his demise ...