The parents of two Melbourne women who died due to methanol poisoning in Laos late last year have called for travellers to boycott the country until it investigates the deaths properly.

That summer, they even agreed to open up for Poison and Mötley Crüe on a long summer amphitheater tour. This meant playing in broad daylight to half-empty venues full of hair-metal fans largely ...

From the Food & Wine archives, Kingsley Amis delves into the history of gin and how moral panic (and a bit of poison) almost killed it. In August 1981, the legendary author Kingsley Amis wrote an ...

A new Netflix drama is about to reveal the dogged determination of a group of parents convinced a council clean-up of a steelworks had harmed their children’s health. Toxic Town, premiering on ...

The UAE-made DV10 unmanned-manned interceptor is pictured at the NAVDEX defense expo in Abu Dhabi in February 2025. (Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo/staff) ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The UAE ...

The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union is deeply disturbed by the alarming increase in the number of food poisoning cases involving learners ... They had allegedly eaten snacks bought from ...

Had the weather not been unseasonably cold on a Monday night in April 1999, one of Britain’s worst industrial poisoning cases might have remained an unsolved mystery. An unassuming Home Counties ...

A woman accused of poisoning her ex-husband has wept as a jury found her not guilty in the WA Supreme Court. Bozena Knapinski, 63, had been on trial in the WA Supreme Court, charged with five ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. Saks has decided to close Neiman Marcus’ Dallas ...

Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor the most useful. The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug ...