Poisoning
KABUL, Afghanistan - Six Afghan private security guards were beheaded during a bank robbery in northern Afghanistan, police said Tuesday.
ADELAIDE, Australia - Was it a competitor or just a vandal who poisoned 7 million vegetable plants at a seedling nursery in Australia?
The sabotage - estimated at a loss of 23.5 million Australian dollars ($20.3 million) - could more than double produce prices across the country due to decreased supply.
ATHENS, Greece - A court on the Greek holiday island of Corfu convicted four people Tuesday in the fatal carbon monoxide poisoning of two British children at a local luxury hotel in 2006.
BALTIMORE - Arsenic helped kill Simon Bolivar, according to a Johns Hopkins doctor who is questioning the tuberculosis diagnosis given as the cause of the Latin liberator's death in 1830.
LONDON - Self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has won his libel case against a Kremlin-owned broadcaster that aired allegations he masterminded the murder of a former KGB agent in London.
