John Greyson, a Toronto filmmaker and professor, and Tarek Loubani, an Ontario physician, were released after being held without charges for more than seven weeks in Egypt, but the next day were barred from boarding a plane after Cairo airport officials said their names were on a “stoplist.”

Prince Harry

of Britain, an Apache helicopter pilot and Afghan War veteran, blamed work pressures for the brevity of his two-day visit to Australia, in his first journey to the nation as an official representative to his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

Alejandra Wilson, a 23-year-old woman missing for six days while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in southwest Washington, has been found safe, according to Yakima County’s Sgt. George Town, who said she had been stranded by a snowstorm and waited for conditions to improve before walking out.

President Cristina Fernandez, the leader of Argentina, was ordered by doctors off the campaign trail, and to a month’s rest, after they found blood on her brain from a head injury.

Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl who survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year, can also apparently add Queen Elizabeth II to her long list of admirers after she was invited to an Oct. 18 reception at Buckingham Palace that will be hosted by the monarch and her husband, Prince Philip.

Paul Hudak, the head of a residential college at Yale University, hopes to solve a case of whodungit by identifying the stinker who has been soiling students’ clothes by sticking human feces inside dryers at least four times in the past month in laundry rooms at Saybrook College.

Ted Cruz, the Texas senator, told the socially conservative advocacy group Family Foundation that President Barack Obama’s Democratic administration is “the most hostile to religious liberty” in American history and is using the health-care law as a weapon against Christians.

Ken Patmon, a Houston police officer, said he was talking on the phone to his 18-year-old son, who was alone at home, when two intruders forced their way into the house and his son shot and killed one of them.

Glen James, a homeless Boston man hailed as a hero last month when he handed over to police a lost backpack filled with more than $40,000, has inspired more than $150,000 in donations to a fund set up in his honor, said the fund’s organizer, Ethan Whittington.

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