round unanimous decision over South African veteran Vusi Malinga Saturday to capture the vacant International Boxing Federation bantamweight world title.
Santa Cruz, 23, remained unbeaten, improving to 20-0 with one drawn and 11 knockouts as he (...)
A strong 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit southern Mexico on Saturday night, killing two people and startling residents as far away as Mexico City, state media reported.
It struck in Guerrero state at 7:47 p.m. local time, about 100 miles (...)
AlHijjah 26, 1432, Nov 22, 2011, SPA -- Mexico's army seized nearly $15.4 million from the organization of the country's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, officials said on Tuesday.
The cash was found in a vehicle on Nov. 18 in the (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1432, Nov 20, 2011, SPA - A bus carrying pilgrims crashed Saturday into a ravine, killing 12 people and injuring 40.
The accident happened near Aguascalientes as the bus was headed to one of Mexico's religious pilgrimage sites, Senor (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA --The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has sent a team of investigators to Mexico to probe the helicopter crash that killed the country's No. 2 official, AP reported.
The board said that it has also (...)
AlHijjah 16, 1432, Nov 12, 2011, SPA - Mexican Interior Minister Jose Francisco Blake died Friday in a helicopter accident in Morelos state, government
spokeswoman Alejandra Sota said.
Seven other people aboard the flight also died. There were no (...)
AlHijjah 15, 1432, Nov 11, 2011, SPA -- Mexican Secretary of the Interior Francisco Blake Mora died Friday in a helicopter crash at age 45, according to President Felipe Calderon's office.
Spokeswoman Alejandra Sota said Blake Mora died when a (...)
AlQa'dah 16, 1432, Oct 14, 2011, SPA -- Seven people were killed and 13 injured in a
riot at a Mexican prison, local media reported Friday.
According to dpa, four of the dead were prisoners who burned to death.
The riots, on Thursday, involved (...)
Ten workers are missing from an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that was evacuated due to strong wind and large waves caused by Tropical Storm Nate, as dpa reported.
The state-owned firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said Friday that the workers had (...)
Mexico's state-owned oil company has awarded its first batch of production-and-exploration contracts for depleted oil fields to a Mexican firm and a British-based company, AP reported.
The director of Petroleos Mexicanos says two contracts in the (...)
Bring us your dog and get a break on your bills, according to AP.
Officials in the northern Mexican city of San Luis Rio Colorado are extending the offer in an effort to reduce a high stray population and to avoid the flea-born typhus that has been (...)
Mexico's net outflow of migrants has fallen to "almost nothing," as fewer migrants entered Mexico, but the number leaving dropped even faster, the government's statistical unit said Monday, according to AP.
A report by the National Statistics (...)
Tropical Storm Eugene formed off Mexico's Pacific coast on Sunday and was not expected to make landfall although forecast show it could reach hurricane strength mid-week, the National Hurricane Center said on Sunday, according to Reuters.
Eugene (...)
An explosion in a visbreaker unit at a Pemex refinery in central Mexico killed two workers on Saturday but did not affect production, a spokesman for the state-run company told Reuters.
The fire at the oil refinery in Tula, one of Mexico's biggest (...)
Mexican police have arrested an alleged leader of the Juarez drug cartel's armed wing linked to a deadly car bomb last year, local media reported on Saturday, according to Reuters.
El Universal daily, quoting government sources, said Jose Antonio (...)
Police arrested more than 1,000 people in a
sting targeting human trafficking operations in northern Mexico,
national media reported Sunday, according to dpa.
The arrests caught up 500 men and 530 women accused of human
trafficking and force (...)
The U.S. consulate in a Mexican border city warns that a drug cartel may be targeting its facilities or other U.S. entry points and is urging Americans there to be vigilant, according to AP.
The U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez says (...)
A former police chief of the western Mexican state of Michoacan who dodged 2,700 bullets and 10 grenades in a single attack last year said Tuesday that she was happy to return to public service, albeit in a different field, dpa reported.
Bautista (...)
Mexican authorities declared several towns a disaster area Friday, in the wake of tropical storm Arlene, which caused floods and mudslides that have claimed at least four lives and
led to the evacuation of thousands of people, dpa (...)
Tropical Storm Beatriz, the second named storm of the Pacific hurricane season, should become a hurricane later on Monday as it heads towards Mexican tourist beaches, Reuters quoted the U.S. National Hurricane Center as saying.
A hurricane warning (...)
Adrian, the first tropical storm of the Pacific season, became a major hurricane Thursday but remained "well off" the coast of Mexico, dpa quoted the Miami-based US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) as saying.
Adrian, which became a hurricane early (...)
Researchers found a tunnel under the Temple of
the Snake in the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan, about 45
kilometres northeast of Mexico City, according to dpa.
The tunnel had apparently been sealed off around 1,800 years ago.
Researchers (...)
Mexican Finance Minister Ernesto Cordero said on Thursday he wants to run for president in 2012 but is not yet resigning from his post, according to Reuters.
"Yes I have ambitions but at the moment I will comply with my responsibilities at the (...)
A blaze swept through some wards of a Mexican
jail killing 14 inmates on Friday, dpa quoted officials in Nuevo Leon state
as saying.
The northern state's public security minister, Jorge Domene, said
the fire at the Apodaca jail was apparently (...)
The government says Mexico's economy grew 4.6 percent in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the same period of 2010. Industrial production led the way, AP reported.
The National Statistics Institute says the gross domestic product growth rate (...)