Much of downtown Aspen was evacuated and New Year's Eve celebrations canceled after suspicious packages were found at two banks.

If you're feeling the holiday cheer, it's best to be aware of the laws that regulate alcohol consumption in your state.

A human head was found in a bag by a British woman out for a morning walk Wednesday.

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Fractures between those who want to make peace and those who support Hamas's militant struggle against the Jewish state are more stark than ever.

NASHVILLE, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A newborn child and its mother were back together in a Nashville hospital Thursday after an alleged attempt to kidnap the baby, police said.

SEOUL, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- South Korea Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee warned his troops Thursday to be ready for possible conflict with North Korea over a coastal dispute.

Many Zune owners successfully revived their failed music players Thursday morning, while others were still unable to overcome a leap year-related glitch that caused thousands of the devices to simultaneously stop working on New Year's Eve.

Former Soviet republic demands that Russia pay more to ship fuel through its pipelines to Europe.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Taliban militants ambushed a group of Afghan police while they were eating lunch in a remote and dangerous part of southern Afghanistan, killing 20 officers and one of the policeman's mother, an Afghan official said Thursday. A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said two Taliban were killed and four wounded during the ambush. Ahmadi claimed 32 police were killed, but that number had not been confirmed by Afghan officials....

DAYTON, Ohio, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Five people died Thursday when a car hit some railroad tracks, went airborne, landed then skidded into a fence in Dayton, Ohio, police said.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman, who won international acclaim as one of the few white lawmakers to fight against the injustices of racist rule, died Thursday. She was 91. Suzman, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, fought a long and lonely battle in the South African parliament against government repression of the country's black majority and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela....

HAVANA, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Cubans Thursday commemorated the 50th anniversary of the revolution that brought former leader Fidel Castro to power.

BANGKOK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- The death toll from a New Year's Day fire in a Bangkok nightclub has been revised downward to 58 with 100 revelers injured, police said.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Two children and three adults died Thursday when fire consumed a home in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, a fire department spokesman said.