Howard Alexander

LONDON – A man with a knife was arrested after he tried to dart through a gate at Buckingham Palace in London on Monday, police said. The palace said Queen Elizabeth II was not in residence.

LONDON – British police said Sunday that the timeline and version of events surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have “significantly changed,” allowing them to build their most detailed reconstruction of the case yet.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – "Gravity" won't be held down.

BEHRAMPUR, INDIA—Mass evacuations spared India the widespread deaths many had feared from a powerful cyclone that roared ashore over the weekend, officials said Sunday, as the country sorted through the wreckage of flooded towns, tangled power lines and tens of thousands of destroyed thatch homes.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.

EDMONTON — There is confusion over how closely police are tracking a convicted sex offender fugitive who police say has fled Canada for the United States.

TORONTO – Two Canadians held in an Egyptian jail for seven weeks say they survived by bonding into an "adopted family" with their dozens of cellmates, who quizzed them on life back home and even posed for portraits.