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CALCIO - UEFA Conference League - Rakow Czestochowa vs MSK Zilina

Zoran Arsenic during match of the second qualifying round of the Conference League between Rakow Czestochowa vs MSK Zilina, Poland, on July 24 2025

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CALCIO - UEFA Conference League - Rakow Czestochowa vs MSK Zilina

Zoran Arsenic, Samuel Gidi and Xavier Adang during match of the second qualifying round of the Conference League between Rakow Czestochowa vs MSK Zilina, Poland, on July 24 2025

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Top court upholds death penalty over 1998 curry poisoning case

TOKYO, Japan - People line up in front of the Supreme Court in Tokyo on April 21 to obtain court gallery tickets for the trial of Masumi Hayashi, who was sentenced to death by lower courts for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama in 1998. The top court dismissed her not-guilty plea, bringing an end to a nearly decade-long trial process.

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Top court upholds death penalty over 1998 curry poisoning case

TOKYO, Japan - Five Supreme Court justices sit at the No. 3 petty bench at the court in Tokyo on April 21 to hand down a ruling on Masumi Hayashi, who was sentenced to death by lower courts for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama in 1998. The top court dismissed her not-guilty plea, bringing an end to a nearly decade-long trial process.

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High court upholds death penalty in curry-poisoning case

OSAKA, Japan - People form long lines to get admission tickets in front of the Osaka High Court in Osaka on June 28 to hear the ruling on Masumi Hayashi, charged with killing four people, including two children, and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic during a community summer festival in 1998 in the city of Wakayama.

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Ibaraki begins accepting applications for poison gas redress

KAMISU, Japan - A resident (R) of Kamisu town in Ibaraki Prefecture, one of 30 locals to have suffered from arsenic poisoning after drinking water from local wells, applies for a state package June 30 to cover medical costs related to health problems believed caused by poison gas abandoned by Japan's former military at the end of World War II.

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(5)Hayashi sentenced to death for killing 4 with poisoned curry

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Mitsuo Hamai (R), president of a victims' group in a 1998 curry poisoning incident, attends a news conference in Wakayama on Dec. 11 after Masumi Hayashi was sentenced to death for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic in the city of Wakayama in 1998.

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(3)Hayashi sentenced to death for killing 4 with poisoned curry

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Tsutomu Kobayashi, chief lawyer for Masumi Hayashi, meets reporters in Wakayama on Dec. 11 after Hayashi was sentenced to death for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama, western Japan, in 1998. He said the defense lawyers filed an appeal.

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(2)Hayashi sentenced to death for killing 4 with poisoned curry

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A vehicle (L) believed to be carrying Masumi Hayashi leaves the Wakayama District Court on Dec. 11 after she was sentenced to death for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a pot of curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama in 1998.

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People line up to watch ruling in curry-poisoning trial

WAKAYAMA, Japan - People form a long queue for tickets to the Wakayama District Court in Wakayama on Dec. 11 to watch a ruling in the trial of Masumi Hayashi, charged with killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic at a summer festival in 1998.

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Mitsubishi firms conceal water contamination

OSAKA, Japan - Mitsubishi Materials Corp. and Mitsubishi Estate Co. did not disclose high levels of arsenic and selenium in underground water they had detected in 1997 at the Osaka Amenity Park (shown in photo), a housing complex they operate in Osaka, sources familiar with the case said Oct. 8.

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Curry poisoning still haunts residents 1 year later

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Sunday, July 25, marks the passing of one full year since four people died after eating poisoned curry in the western Japanese city of Wakayama. The photo shows Mitsuo Hamai (L), head of a group of those affected by the poisoning, praying for the victims in the garage where the arsenic-laced curry was cooked.

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Memorial service for curry-poisoning victims

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Relatives of victims in a 1998 curry-poisoning case in Wakayama, western Japan, offer silent prayers before a small altar during a memorial service July 24. Four people were killed and 63 others fell ill after eating arsenic-laced curry which was prepared by members of the local community and served at a summer festival on July 25, 1998. A former insurance sales woman has been indicted on murder charges in the case.

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Memorial service held for curry-poisoning victims

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Residents in the western Japan city of Wakayama hold a memorial service on July 20 for four people killed in a curry poisoning case in the city's Sonobe district a year ago. In a park near the spot of the July 25 incident, about 40 people place flowers before a small altar and offered silent players for then local community leader Takatoshi Taninaka and three others. The four people died and the others fell ill after eating curry poisoned with arsenic which was served at a local community summer festival. Former insurance saleswoman Masumi Hayashi, 37, was arrested last October and subsequently indicted on charges of murder and attempted murder in the case.

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Wakayama poisoning case hearing draws crowds

People line up to draw lots for admission to a hearing at the Wakayama District Court, western Japan, on Oct. 13 at which Masumi Hayashi, 37, denied allegations she attempted to murder a 35-year-old acquaintance with arsenic in September last year and swindled insurance companies out of 1.6 million yen. Her husband Kenji, 53, denied insurance fraud and attempted insurance fraud charges.

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Police continue searching home in poisoning case

Police resumed searching Oct. 6 the Wakayama home of a woman arrested Oct. 4 in an arsenic poisoning case which took place in September last year, about 10 months before the mass curry poisoning incident in July which claimed four lives. Investigators were looking for traces of arsenious acid, which they suspect was used in the September incident.

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Memorial service held for curry-poisoning victims

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Residents in the western Japan city of Wakayama hold a memorial service on July 20 for four people killed in a curry poisoning case in the city's Sonobe district a year ago. In a park near the spot of the July 25 incident, about 40 people place flowers before a small altar and offered silent players for then local community leader Takatoshi Taninaka and three others. The four people died and the others fell ill after eating curry poisoned with arsenic which was served at a local community summer festival. Former insurance saleswoman Masumi Hayashi, 37, was arrested last October and subsequently indicted on charges of murder and attempted murder in the case.

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(3)Hayashi sentenced to death for killing 4 with poisoned curry

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Tsutomu Kobayashi, chief lawyer for Masumi Hayashi, meets reporters in Wakayama on Dec. 11 after Hayashi was sentenced to death for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama, western Japan, in 1998. He said the defense lawyers filed an appeal.

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Arsenic And Old Lace film (1944)

Cary Grant Characters: Mortimer Brewster Film: Arsenic And Old Lace (1947) Director: Frank Capra 01 March 1944 Date: 01-Mar-1944

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Arsenic And Old Lace film (1944)

Cary Grant & Priscilla Lane Characters: Mortimer Brewster & Elaine Harper Film: Arsenic And Old Lace (1940) Director: Frank Capra 01 March 1944 Date: 01-Mar-1944

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Arsenic And Old Lace film (1944)

Josephine Hull, Priscilla Lane & Jean Adair Characters: Abby Brewster,Elaine Harper & Martha Brewster Film: Arsenic And Old Lace (1941) Director: Frank Capra 01 March 1944 Date: 01-Mar-1944

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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE RAYMOND MASSEY, PETER LORRE Date: 1944

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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE RAYMOND MASSEY, PETER LORRE Date: 1944

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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE CARY GRANT, JEAN ADAIR, JOSEPHINE HULL Date: 1944

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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE FRANK CAPRA director, CARY GRANT Date: 1944

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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE Date: 1944

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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE PETER LORRE, RAYMOND MASSEY, JOSEPHINE HULL, CARY GRANT, PRISCILLA LANE, JEAN ADAIR Date: 1944

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Chinese doctor fights against arsenic poisoning

Zhao Guangming, a doctor who has been treating patients with arsenic poisoning caused by mining for nearly 40 years in Changde, Shimen County in the Chinese Province of Hunan, talks in an interview on April 19, 2015. Zhao, also suffering from arsenic poisoning, was instrumental in the establishment of the national standards on work-related chronic arsenic poisoning in 2003. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese village plagued by arsenic poisoning for over 6 decades

A portrait of the wife of a 70-year-old Chinese farmer is seen below a poster of Communist China's founder Mao Zedong at the farmer's house in a village in Shimen County, Hunan Province, China, on April 20, 2015. The woman was one of at least 700 who died from arsenic intoxication in the village, where some 2,300 people have developed arsenic poisoning symptoms over the past 65 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man suffering from arsenic poisoning in rural China

A man suffering from arsenic intoxication looks at a closed mine in a village in Shimen County, Hunan Province, China, on April 20, 2015. Arsenic pollution is a serious problem in the area and at least 700 residents have died from arsenic intoxication in the past 65 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese farmer in village with arsenic pollution

Photo shows a 70-year-old Chinese farmer suffering from skin cancer in a village in Shimen County, Hunan Province, China, on April 20, 2015. Arsenic pollution is a serious problem in the area and at least 700 residents have died from arsenic intoxication in the past 65 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abandoned mining facility in rural China

Photo taken on April 20, 2015, shows an abandoned mining facility in a village in Shimen County, Hunan Province, China. Arsenic pollution is a serious problem in the area. In the background is a closed mine. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese village plagued by arsenic poisoning for over 6 decades

A 70-year-old Chinese farmer shows the photographer his arsenic-induced skin cancer in a village in Shimen County, Hunan Province, China, on April 20, 2015. In the contaminated village, some 2,300 people have developed arsenic poisoning symptoms over the past 65 years, resulting in at least 700 deaths. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE PETER LORRE, RAYMOND MASSEY Date: 1944

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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE CARY GRANT, PRISCILLA LANE Date: 1944

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High court upholds death penalty in curry-poisoning case

OSAKA, Japan - People form long lines to get admission tickets in front of the Osaka High Court in Osaka on June 28 to hear the ruling on Masumi Hayashi, charged with killing four people, including two children, and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic during a community summer festival in 1998 in the city of Wakayama. (Kyodo)

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Top court upholds death penalty over 1998 curry poisoning case

TOKYO, Japan - People line up in front of the Supreme Court in Tokyo on April 21 to obtain court gallery tickets for the trial of Masumi Hayashi, who was sentenced to death by lower courts for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama in 1998. The top court dismissed her not-guilty plea, bringing an end to a nearly decade-long trial process. (Kyodo)

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Top court upholds death penalty over 1998 curry poisoning case

TOKYO, Japan - Five Supreme Court justices sit at the No. 3 petty bench at the court in Tokyo on April 21 to hand down a ruling on Masumi Hayashi, who was sentenced to death by lower courts for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama in 1998. The top court dismissed her not-guilty plea, bringing an end to a nearly decade-long trial process. (Kyodo)

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Top court upholds death penalty over 1998 curry poisoning case

TOKYO, Japan - The Supreme Court on April 21 upheld lower court rulings which sentenced Masumi Hayashi (file photo taken in August, 1998) to death over a 1998 fatal curry poisoning case in Wakayama Prefecture. The lower courts convicted Hayashi, 47, of killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic during a community summer festival in the city of Wakayama. (Kyodo)

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Abandoned chemical weapon causes disease, handicap

TOKYO, Japan - Eiko Ozawa, a 40-year-old housewife living in the Kizaki area of the town of Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, talks about the fear of abandoned chemical weapons near a make-shift dome in which the Environment Agency is conducting an investigation by digging around a well in which arsenic was detected. (Kyodo)

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Toxic chemicals found exceeding standards at new Tokyo market site

File photo taken in July shows Tokyo's Toyosu market area where the famous Tsukiji fish market is planned to be relocated. The Tokyo metropolitan government said on Sept. 29, 2016, that two toxic chemicals -- benzene and arsenic -- were detected at levels slightly above the government-set environmental standards in groundwater samples from the area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ibaraki begins accepting applications for poison gas redress

KAMISU, Japan - A resident (R) of Kamisu town in Ibaraki Prefecture, one of 30 locals to have suffered from arsenic poisoning after drinking water from local wells, applies for a state package June 30 to cover medical costs related to health problems believed caused by poison gas abandoned by Japan's former military at the end of World War II. (Kyodo)

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(5)Hayashi sentenced to death for killing 4 with poisoned curry

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Mitsuo Hamai (R), president of a victims' group in a 1998 curry poisoning incident, attends a news conference in Wakayama on Dec. 11 after Masumi Hayashi was sentenced to death for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic in the city of Wakayama in 1998.

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People line up to watch ruling in curry-poisoning trial

WAKAYAMA, Japan - People form a long queue for tickets to the Wakayama District Court in Wakayama on Dec. 11 to watch a ruling in the trial of Masumi Hayashi, charged with killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a curry stew with arsenic at a summer festival in 1998. (Kyodo)

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Hayashi sentenced to death for killing 4 with poisoned curry

WAKAYAMA, Japan - The Wakayama District Court sentenced Masumi Hayashi (file photo) to death on Dec. 11 for killing four people, including two children, and poisoning 63 others by lacing a pot of curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama, western Japan, in 1998. (Kyodo)

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(2)Hayashi sentenced to death for killing 4 with poisoned curry

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A vehicle (L) believed to be carrying Masumi Hayashi leaves the Wakayama District Court on Dec. 11 after she was sentenced to death for killing four people and poisoning 63 others by lacing a pot of curry stew with arsenic in Wakayama in 1998. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi firms conceal water contamination

OSAKA, Japan - Mitsubishi Materials Corp. and Mitsubishi Estate Co. did not disclose high levels of arsenic and selenium in underground water they had detected in 1997 at the Osaka Amenity Park (shown in photo), a housing complex they operate in Osaka, sources familiar with the case said Oct. 8. (Kyodo)

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Curry poisoning still haunts residents 1 year later

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Sunday, July 25, marks the passing of one full year since four people died after eating poisoned curry in the western Japanese city of Wakayama. The photo shows Mitsuo Hamai (L), head of a group of those affected by the poisoning, praying for the victims in the garage where the arsenic-laced curry was cooked.

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Curry poisoning still haunts residents 1 year later

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Sunday, July 25, marks the passing of one full year since four people died after eating poisoned curry in the western Japanese city of Wakayama. The photo shows Mitsuo Hamai (L), head of a group of those affected by the poisoning, praying for the victims in the garage where the arsenic-laced curry was cooked.

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Memorial service for curry-poisoning victims

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Relatives of victims in a 1998 curry-poisoning case in Wakayama, western Japan, offer silent prayers before a small altar during a memorial service July 24. Four people were killed and 63 others fell ill after eating arsenic-laced curry which was prepared by members of the local community and served at a summer festival on July 25, 1998. A former insurance sales woman has been indicted on murder charges in the case.