ITALY BRITAIN POISONED SPY SCARAMELLA

Recent undated photo made available Friday Dec. 1, 2006 of Italian academic Mario Scaramella, taken in Naples, southern Italy. Scaramella has tested positive for same toxin that killed former Russian spy, BBC News 24 and Sky Television News reported Friday, Dec. 1, 2006 Scaramella, who was one of the last people to see former Soviet spy Alexander Litvinenko before he fell ill, tested positive for a significant amount of polonium 210, the TV networks reported. The academic had come from Rome to meet with Litvinenko at a sushi bar in London on Nov. 1, the day the former intelligence agent first reported the symptoms that ultimately led to his death at a central London hospital.(AP Photo/Franco Castano')