The son of a Mexican wrestling legend died early on Saturday from a blow suffered in the ring, the Baja California state prosecutor’s office said.

Two pilots in a helium-filled balloon have landed safely off the coast of Mexico after a nearly 7,000-mile long trip across the Pacific Ocean.

A series of mishaps has forced mission controllers to scrub today’s planned launch of the Orion spacecraft that could one day take astronauts to Mars.

Tropical Storm Leslie has strengthened in the Atlantic, forecasters warned today.

A moderate earthquake off the coast of Baja California swayed buildings in Mexico City today.

Imagine waking in your hotel room and throwing open the balcony door — to be greeted by 40 US Navy Seals doing press-ups on the beach.

Ports and beaches were temporarily shut and islanders and coastal residents ordered to higher ground up and down Latin America’s Pacific seaboard ahead of the tsunami surge triggered by the killer Japanese quake. But it did little damage.

Tropical Storm Celia has formed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico, although forecasters say it is expected to remain well offshore.

The US-Mexico border has been rocked by a 5.7-magnitude earthquake that rattled nerves in a region still recovering from the deadly Easter tremor, seismologists said today.

A POWERFUL earthquake swayed buildings from Los Angeles to Tijuana, killing two people in Mexico, blacking out cities and forcing the evacuation of hospitals and nursing homes.

A strong earthquake south of the US-Mexico border swayed high-rise buildings in Los Angeles and San Diego and was felt across Southern California and Arizona.

Mexican federal police arrested two suspected gang leaders, delivering another big blow to a brutal drug cartel that terrorised the border city of Tijuana for several year

Firefighters today revealed they were finally ’optimistic’ in their struggle to contain huge wildfires in southern California.

A powerful earthquake shook fishing villages along Mexico’s Gulf of California today.

WITH swine flu still spreading, the UN health agency is warning countries to confine the use of antiviral drugs to high-risk patients to ensure adequate supplies in case the virus should mutate and become more dangerous.

With swine flu still spreading, the UN health agency is urging countries to limit their use of antiviral drugs to only high-risk patients to ensure adequate supplies in case the virus mutates and becomes more dangerous.

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.

HELICOPTERS clattered overhead and Miskito Indians paddled canoes through a debris-littered sea in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, yesterday, searching desperately for survivors of Hurricane Felix.

Doctors treated storm casualties in a makeshift clinic after Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast.

Hurricane Henriette today threatened Mexico’s mainland on a track for the south-western US, while the weakening remains of mighty Hurricane Felix, far to the south, caused flooding, landslides and at least 9 deaths in Central America.

Felix slammed into Central America’s remote Miskito coastline and Henriette slammed into resorts on the tip of Baja California as a record-setting hurricane season got even wilder with twin storms making landfall on the same day.

Tropical storm Henriette strengthened into a hurricane off Mexico’s Pacific coast today, US forecasters said.

Tropical Storm Paul gained hurricane strength off Mexico's west coast today and is threatening southern Baja California, the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.

Mexican officials ordered 15,000 residents to evacuate to higher ground and tourists fled hotels today, waiting in long queues at the airport and desperately seeking flights home as Hurricane John roared towards the resort of Cabo San Lucas.

Firefighters struggled desperately to save emptied-out resort towns in southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains as 200ft walls of flame engulfed dead and dried-out trees.

Authorities in Tijuana, Mexico have found the tortured bodies of two police officers who had been abducted at gunpoint, stuffed in the boot of a car.