Polonium is back in the news as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's wife says Swiss forensic tests show he was poisoned to death by it in 2004. Here are five things to know about the radioactive ...

Polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. This week, Yasser Arafat's widow has called for the late Palestinian ...

Swiss scientists say they've found evidence that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with polonium. The deadly radioactive element first hit the headlines when it was used to kill ...

Polonium is used in very small quantities in some industrial applications Polonium has been at the centre of the inquiry into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 in ...

The murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was one of the most high-profile assassinations of the decade. It was a case that gripped the world after it emerged Mr Litvinenko died from acute ...

LONDON The deadly radioactive element polonium first hit the headlines when it was used to kill KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. Scientists at Switzerland's ...

A new forensics report says Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium. Nov. 6, 2013 -- A Swiss forensics investigation claims that the former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with ...

Polonium-210 is the deadly poison that was used to kill the former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, in London in 2006. He died of radiation sickness. Litvinenko is alleged to have swallowed a fatal ...

The Skinny is Hillary Profita's take on the top news of the day and the best of the Internet. Yes, Polonium-210, "which experts say is many times more deadly than cyanide," the story notes, "can be ...

Whether a radioactive substance called polonium-210 was involved in Yasser Arafat’s death is under investigation. The body of the former Palestine Liberation Organization leader was exhumed Tuesday ...

One hundred years ago, Marie Curie won her second Nobel Prize, in chemistry, for her 1898 discovery of the elements polonium and radium, which she had painstakingly isolated from a radioactive uranium ...

Polonium has been at the centre of the inquiry into the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in November 2006 in London. He was poisoned by a "major dose" of the radioactive substance ...