US man jailed for 25 years for Obama ricin plotA Mississippi man who concocted and then sent potentially lethal ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other senior US officials was jailed Monday for 25 years.
20 May 2014
Canadian woman's letter arrives -- after 45-year delayA 45-year-old letter mysteriously arrived in the mailbox of a Canadian woman, who received the ancient correspondence from her younger sister decades after it was sent, Canadian media reported.
24 April 2014
'Letters to father' deepen Uzbek first daughter mysteryThe appearance of rambling letters said to have been written by Uzbekistan's once all-powerful first daughter Gulnara Karimova has heightened the mystery over her astonishing fall from grace in the ex-Soviet state.
02 April 2014
US actress pleads guilty to Obama, Bloomberg ricin plotA 36-year-old actress from Texas on Tuesday pleaded guilty to mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control activist, federal prosecutors said.
11 December 2013
Arrests in Greece over letter bomb: police Two men were arrested in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, late on Thursday in connection with a botched letter bombing earlier this month.
12 July 2013
Bolivian paper releases unknown Che documents Che Guevara's personal letters and a slew of unpublished photographs were published by a Bolivian newspaper Monday, nearly half a century after the Argentine-born Cuban revolution hero's death.
19 June 2013
Texas actress arrested in US ricin case A Texas actress was arrested Friday for mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control activist.
10 June 2013
Suspicious letters sent to White House, NY mayor A suspicious letter addressed to the White House and "similar" to an apparently poison-laced letter sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been intercepted.
31 May 2013
Suspected poison letter sent to New York mayor Letters suspected of being laced with the deadly poison ricin were sent last week to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and to an official with the gun law lobby that he supports.
30 May 2013
Charges dropped against US ricin suspect A US man accused of sending a poison-laced letter to the White House was released from jail with his charges dismissed Tuesday as officials searched the home of a rival.
24 April 2013
Threatening letter, powder sent to S. Korea minister South Korea's defence minister received Tuesday a package containing a threatening letter and suspicious powder, in what his ministry described as an attempted act of "terror".
23 April 2013
Suspect arrested in US over Obama ricin letter A letter addressed to President Barack Obama tested positive for ricin, and authorities arrested a suspect, stoking alarm in Washington on Wednesday after an earlier scare over poisoned mail.