A TV broadcaster in Mexico has become an internet hit with his composure under stress from an earthquake that hit the capital yesterday.

A petrol tanker has exploded in Mexico City killing at least nine people and injuring 13.

A Frenchwoman freed from a Mexican jail after a court said police violated her rights by staging her arrest for kidnapping on national television, has returned to Paris to a hero’s welcome.

Thousands marched through Mexico City, railing against what they called the “imposition” of the old ruling party candidate as the country’s new president.

The bound and gagged bodies of 26 men were found in the heart of Guadalajara, a sign that full-scale war between Mexican drug cartels may have come to the picturesque western city which hosted last month’s Pan American Games.

SUSPECTED drug traffickers dumped 35 bodies at rush hour beneath a busy overpass in the heart of a major city as gunmen pointed weapons at drivers.

A STATE police officer has been arrested in connection with last week’s arson fire at a casino that killed 52 people in northern Mexico.

Workers were today continuing to pull bodies out of a burned casino in northern Mexico, where gunmen spread petrol and ignited a fire which trapped and killed at least 53 patrons and employees.

A HILLSIDE collapsed on hundreds of sleeping residents yesterday in a rural Mexican community drenched for days by a hurricane and a tropical storm, killing at least seven and leaving at least 100 missing, disaster officials said.

The sprawling remains of Hurricane Alex has drenched much of northern Mexico, paralysing the major city of Monterrey.

A fight among inmates at a prison in northern Mexico killed 19 inmates and left more than 20 injured, Durango state officials said.

SOLDIERS and federal police have regained control of Tijuana’s infamous La Mesa State Penitentiary after a second riot in three days left 19 people dead and 12 injured, officials said yesterday.

Youths rushed for the exits during a police raid on a Mexico City nightclub, leaving at least 12 people dead in the crush of bodies, the capital’s police chief said.

A massive wave of mud and water swept through a Mexican village, leaving up to 16 people missing and feared dead after heavy rainfalls caused a hillside to collapse into a river, officials said.

Hurricane Dean limped across Mexico today as a weakened tropical depression, but still dumped torrential rains that flooded rivers and drenched mudslide-prone mountains.

Hurricane Dean raked the Mexican mainland Wednesday and battered evacuated oil platforms, forcing thousands to flee as it regained some of the force it unleashed on the Yucatan Peninsula.

Mexican soldiers and rescue workers today recovered 24 bodies from a bus buried in a landslide but held out little hope of finding survivors.

RESCUERS digging through mud and rocks have recovered at least 24 bodies from a bus buried on a rural Mexican road after a mountainside gave way, officials said yesterday.

A 20-YEAR-OLD dancer from Japan was crowned Miss Universe 2007, marking only the second time her country has won the world beauty title.

Ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon declared victory in Mexico’s closest presidential race ever, saying today that his 370,000-vote lead was insurmountable.

Rescue workers were burrowing through debris clogging a Mexican coal mine early today, a desperate effort to free 65 miners who had been trapped for more than a day by a gas explosion.

A former professional wrestler captured while fleeing a house where an 82-year-old woman had been strangled with a stethoscope has been linked to the deaths of at least 10 elderly women in Mexico City, police said today, raising hopes that the notorious Little Old Lady Killer is finally in custody.

Rescue workers today searched for victims of a mudslide near a volcano-ringed lake popular with tourists in Guatemala, as the death toll from flooding sparked by heavy rains climbed to 79 across the country and 65 in neighbouring El Salvador.

Colima’s volatile Volcano of Fire staged a spectacular midnight eruption, scattering its flanks with glowing rock and spewing ash on nearby towns early today. No injuries or damage were reported.

In a sign of the decline of Pope John Paul II's decline, several cardinals from the US and Latin America said they were heading to Rome.

A member of the Mexico City mounted police shot dead his wife and three children before trying to kill himself with a shot to the head.