Sven-Goran Eriksson will be confirmed as the new manager of the Mexico national team on Monday, according to the head of the country’s governing body.

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.

A bus carrying Mexican tourists plunged off a 650ft cliff today, killing at least 60 people in a crash police said could have been caused by brake failure on the steep mountainous roads.

Air quality tests in a section of a Mexican coal mine where as many as 26 miners could have been working have shown there is not enough oxygen to sustain life, it was announced early today.