A kindergarten teacher found to have poisoned 25 of her students, killing one, has been executed according to a court in central China Friday. Wang Yun’s sentence was carried out Thursday according to a notice posted outside the No. 1 Intermediate Court
A woman’s holiday was ruined when she suffered sun poisoning on a trip to Lanzarote which left her unrecognisable after her face swelled up. Abbie Leverseidge, 22, from Northampton, flew out to the Canary Islands with her boyfriend, Kieran, 21, for a
Ten people died after drinking home-made liquor made with methanol at a party, Iranian state media reported Tuesday, as the number of such deaths increases in the Islamic Republic. Dozens of people were reportedly hospitalized last week after drinking the tainted booze
Five meerkats that died at Philadephia Zoo are believed to have been poisoned by accident. Reports suggest the animals – named Nkosi, Lula, Nya, Kgala, and Ari – were poisoned by a dye used to mark them. It came a decade after
The European Union called on Afghan authorities Tuesday to investigate the poisoning of primary schoolgirls in the country’s north after 77 students were hospitalized. Two separate attacks took place in Sar-e-Pul province on Saturday and Sunday, local authorities said. Sixty schoolgirls were
If you eat out at a restaurant or food stand and come down with food poisoning afterward — the food may not be the only thing to blame. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) out this
More than 300 poisoning incidents have occurred at schools around Iran, which critics argue could not happen without Tehran’s acknowledgment or approval. “These attacks are most probably designed to punish and scare the Iranian people for the widespread protests that erupted in
As many as 25 British tourists staying at a five-star Turkish hotel have been struck with food poisoning, one of which is in hospital. The holidaymakers were staying at the Rixos Sungate – an all-inclusive hotel offered by holiday giant TUI –
The Scottish National Party chief in charge of overseeing the election to replace Nicola Sturgeon is under fire, after the Daily Express uncovered tweets from her questioning UK intelligence that Russia was behind the 2018 Salisbury poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his
More than half of all poisoning deaths among children five years and younger involve opioid drugs, a new study revealed. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics on Wednesday, was conducted by researchers at The Poison Control Center at the Children’s Hospital