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An FBI-led task force is trying find out how the deadly poison ricin wound up in a roll of coins used by a student in a University of Texas dormitory, officials said on Saturday. The chunky white powder was found on Thursday night when the student, doing her laundry in coin-operated washing machines, spilled the coins out of a paper tube onto her dorm room desk, said Theresa Spalding, medical director of health services at the university in Austin, Texas. The roll of coins was one of two given to the woman by her mother, Spalding said. Preliminary tests on...

A Libyan arrested at the house where a Special Branch detective was stabbed to death has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences. Khalid Alwerfeli was remanded in custody for a week when he appeared at Bow Street Magistrates' Court. The 29-year-old was held in a flat in Crumpsall Lane, Manchester, where Detective Constable Stephen Oake was stabbed to death last Tuesday. Another man, Kamel Bourgass, 27, appeared in court last Friday charged with murdering Dc Oake and attempting to murder four other police officers.