" LONDON - Officials found traces of radiation on two British Airways jets, and the airline appealed Wednesday to tens of thousands of passengers who flew to or from Moscow and other cities to come forward as investigators widened the search for clues into the poisoning...
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"Yegor Gaidar, Russiaâs former prime minister and the architect of the countryâs market reforms, last week suffered a sudden, unexplained and violent illness on a visit to Ireland, a day after Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB spy, died in London from an apparent...
" Tests on public areas of the hotel found no risk from radiation Police piecing together the movements of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko are examining two new sites in their inquiry into his poisoning. The search has been extended to the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel and...
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Scientists from the United Kingdom, France and Italy have studied teeth from Neanderthals (info) with X-rays from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). They found that the dental development of...
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" View Larger Image Dr Roger Cox, Director of the Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards at the British Health Protection Agency, speaking to the media about the death of Alexander Litvinenko in central London Friday Nov. 24, 2006. Photograph by :...
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"LONDON, England (AP) -- Polonium-210 -- the radioactive substance used to poison a former Russian spy in London -- is one of the world's rarest elements, first discovered in the 19th century by scientists Marie and Pierre Curie.
It is highly lethal when ingested, and...