SYDNEY – An Australian man appeared in court Tuesday on terror charges after police say he tried to join Kurdish-aligned forces battling the Islamic State group in Iraq. Jamie Williams, 28, was stopped by customs agents as he was boarding a flight to Qatar at Melbourne airport in December after …

NORFOLK, Va. – Federal authorities say a wood-boring beetle in a cargo container at the Port of Norfolk is the first of its kind to be found in the United States. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says agriculture specialists discovered the beetle among untreated wooden pallets from Poland. The …

Diabetics with stable heart disease do just as well taking drugs alone as getting quick angioplasty or bypass surgery to open blocked heart arteries, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. They said patients advised to have angioplasty and a heart stent to restore blood flow and ease chest pain could safely …

TULSA, Okla. – A spokeswoman for ExpressJet Airlines says a Continental Express jet with 53 people on board has made an emergency landing in Oklahoma. Kristy Nicholas says Flight 2916 diverted to Tulsa International Airport just after 9:30 a.m. Monday after the three-member crew said they were having a “pressurization …

HONOLULU – Comforted by the U.S. military’s missile defense systems, Hawaii residents doubt a North Korean missile would light up the clear island sky. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t worried that a long-range missile could be launched in their direction. Japanese media have reported the North Koreans appear to …

The EU Naval Force says it has handed over 43 Somalis abandoned at sea by their human smugglers to the United Nations refugee agency in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti. The EU force says a ship from the Netherlands rescued the castaways on Oct. 24 in the Gulf …

YUBA CITY, Calif. – Investigators are probing whether a severed human leg found in a rural area of Sutter County may be related to a nearby missing-person case. A group of people playing paintball found the unclothed limb of a white male adult on Sunday afternoon. It was in an …

DICKINSON, North Dakota – Authorities say preliminary autopsy results show drowning as the cause of death for three North Dakota college softball players found dead inside a sport utility vehicle that sunk in a rural farm pond. Stark County Sheriff Clarence Tuhy said Friday that two of the women’s bodies …

SEATTLE – A close friend of Washington Lt. Gov. Brad Owen shot one of Owen’s sons in an apparent workplace dispute Monday afternoon and then shot himself in the head, the lieutenant governor said. Mark Owen, 37, was listed in satisfactory condition Monday evening at Harborview Medical Center. The lieutenant …

A U.S. clinical study suggests that just half a dose of the Novartis AG H1N1 vaccine may be enough to generate a protective immune response, the Swiss drugmaker said on Tuesday. Novartis said data from about 4,000 individuals suggested that half a dose of its U.S.-approved unadjuvanted H1N1 vaccine met …