COPENHAGEN — A Somali man was charged with two counts of attempted murder Saturday for an attack on a Danish artist whose 2005 cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad ignited riots and outrage across the Muslim world, authorities said.

The 28-year-old Somali man with ties to al-Qaida broke into Kurt Westergaard's home in Aarhus on Friday night armed with an ax and a knife, said Jakob Scharf, head of Denmark's PET intelligence agency.

The 75-year-old artist, who has been targeted with several death threats since depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban, pressed an alarm and fled with his 5-year-old granddaughter to a specially made safe room.

Officers arrived two minutes later and tried to arrest the assailant, but then shot him in the hand and knee when he threatened them with the ax, said Preben Nielsen of the Aarhus police.

The man was charged at a court hearing Saturday in Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city, 125 miles northwest of Copenhagen. He was wheeled into the courtroom on a stretcher from the hospital where he was being treated for his wounds, and was accompanied by a lawyer, authorities said.

Chief Superintendent Ole Madsen in Aarhus said the Somali man was charged with two counts of attempted murder: one on Westergaard and one on a police officer.

"He will be in custody for four weeks, and in isolation for two," Madsen said.

The suspect's name was not released in line with Danish privacy rules. Nielsen said the man's wounds were serious but not life-threatening.

Westergaard was "quite shocked" by the attack but was not injured, Nielsen said.

ADELAIDE, Australia — Remains of the first airplane ever taken to Antarctica, in 1912, were found by Australian researchers, the team announced Saturday.The Mawson's Huts Foundation had been searching for the plane for three summers before stumbling upon metal pieces of it on New Year's Day."The biggest news of the day is that we've found the air tractor, or at least parts of it!" team member Tony Stewart wrote on the team's blog from Cape Denison in Antarctica's Commonwealth Bay.Australian polar explorer and geologist Douglas Mawson led two expeditions to Antarctica in the early 1900s, on the first one bringing along a single-propeller Vickers plane. The wings of the plane, built in 1911, had been damaged in a crash before the expedition, but Mawson hoped to use it as a kind of motorized sled.Stewart said the 1911-14 Australian Antarctic Expedition used the plane to tow gear onto the ice in preparation for their sledging journeys.But the plane's engine could not withstand the extreme temperatures and it was eventually abandoned.The plane, the first from France's Vickers factory, had not been seen since the mid-1970s, when researchers photographed the steel fuselage nearly encompassed in ice.The foundation — which works at Cape Denison to conserve the huts used by Mawson in his expeditions — believed the plane would still be where it was left by Mawson, near the huts and the harbor, which is covered in ice for most of the year.

TOKYO — A robber bored a hole through the wall of a jewelry shop and walked off with about 200 luxury watches worth $3.2 million in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district, police said Saturday.Investigators discovered a 16 to 20 inch hole in one of the store's walls, said Shinya Watanabe, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.Last February, $540,000 in jewelry was stolen from another Ginza store through a hole in a concrete wall. Police said it was not clear whether the two thefts were linked, or if the thief entered the store to remove the watches.A security guard monitoring the store Friday afternoon did not notice anything unusual, Watanabe said. Police had no witnesses but were interviewing employees at neighboring stores for possible leads."Whoever did this bored a hole into a concrete wall," Watanabe said. "The noise must have been quite loud."The store, Tenshodo, is located in the heart of Ginza, the busiest high-end shopping district in Tokyo. It was founded in 1879 and sells jewelry and luxury watches such as Rolex, Chopard and Piaget.Saturday was the start of the New Year sale season, when bargain hunters flock to department stores and shops offering big discounts. A block from Tenshodo, customers lined up at Mitsukoshi department store waiting for its 10 a.m. opening.