Police in Mexico have captured an alleged former Sinaloa drug cartel lieutenant accused of being involved in the killings of over 350 people found in mass graves in 2011.

Series five of Mad Men, the series set in the world of New York advertising in the 1960s, begins on RTÉ Two on Friday.

A nine-year-old boy with a massive tumour was whisked from a gang-infested neighbourhood in Mexico by US agents and taken across the border for treatment in New Mexico.

Forensics tests in Mexico have confirmed that 12 sets of skeletal remains found near the US border are those of girls and women, authorities said.

AN entire 20-man police force has resigned in a northern Mexico city after a series of attacks killed three officers.

A former police officer who allegedly admits ordering 1,500 killings during a campaign of terror as a drug gang chieftain along the US border has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said.

Gunmen have killed five members of a family, including two young children, in the drug cartel-plagued state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico.

Mexican poet-turned-activist Javier Sicilia set off on a cross-country caravan with hundreds of fellow demonstrators to demand an end to drug-related bloodshed.

A spate of bloody attacks on taxis in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco left 12 taxi drivers or passengers dead, hours before the start of the Mexican Open tennis tournament.

Gunmen spraying automatic weapons fire killed seven people at a park that had been built as an anti-violence measure in the besieged Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.

Susana Chavez, a 36-year-old poet and activist who adopted the slogan Not One More Death, was found strangled, mutilated and dumped on a street in the Mexican border city of Juarez, infamous for a series of murders of women – even before drug cartels made it one of the most violent places in the world.

The embattled Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez had its bloodiest year ever with 3,111 people killed in drug violence, an official said.

A mother who waged a two-year battle to bring her daughter’s killer to justice has been shot to death, possibly by the same man suspected of murdering the teenager.

THE Mexican army have discovered several clandestine graves holding at least 20 bodies near a ranch in the northern border state of Chihuahua.

Mexican authorities said four US citizens were shot dead in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Gunmen killed 15 people at a car wash in a Pacific coast state where drug-gang violence has risen this year – the third massacre in Mexico in less than a week.

At least 13 people were killed today after gunmen opened fire at a car wash in western Mexico, officials said.

At least 13 youths aged 14 to 20 have been shot dead at a party in Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said today.

MEXICAN soldiers seized 105 tonnes of marijuana with a US street value of more than $340 million (€246m) on Monday in Mexico’s biggest-ever pot haul, the army said.

Mexican authorities arrested an alleged trafficker known as “The Tiger” who they say shipped a half-ton of drugs to the US each month and may have been poised to take over for a dead boss in the Sinaloa cartel.

Gunmen burst into a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and killed six men and a woman, authorities said today.

A gunbattle between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug cartel members left 22 dead at ranch near the US border, officials said.

Mexico looked beyond its drug war and looming Atlantic storms today to throw a 200th birthday bash celebrating a proud history, whimsical culture and resilience embodied in the traditional independence cry: “Viva Mexico!”

SOLDIERS killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his posh hideout, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico’s most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against organised crime in 2006.

TO cries of “Kill them all!” gunmen opened fire at a weekend birthday party in Torreon, mowing down at least 17 people in another attack that laid bare the brutality of Mexico’s long-running drug war.

At least 30 gunmen burst into a drug rehabilitation centre in a Mexican border state capital and opened fire, killing 19 men and wounding four people.

Federal police arrested Mexico’s ’King of Heroin’, a powerful drug trafficker allegedly responsible for running thousands of pounds of heroin into Southern California each year, authorities said.

MEXICAN President Felipe Calderon headed to his country’s most violent city yesterday after deadly attacks on US consular staff and their families upped the ante in his battle against drug gangs.

Gunmen burst into a party in western Mexico and killed eight youths and left another person wounded.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said he won’t withdraw troops from the embattled border city of Ciudad Juarez despite criticism that the presence of thousands of soldiers exacerbated violence.

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

WITNESSES have said the attack by armed men who stormed a party in a violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students, was prompted by false information.

MEXICO opened the new year with what could be its most dubious distinction yet in the three-year-old battle against drug trafficking – 69 murders in one day.

Fifteen people, including a child, three women and a university professor, have been killed in a single day in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said today.

Gunmen murdered a Mexican state congressional candidate and his wife and two sons at their home.

Gunmen broke into a drug rehabilitation centre, lined people against a wall and shot 17 dead in a particularly bloody day in Mexico’s relentless drug war. The brazen attack followed the killing of the No. 2 security official in President Felipe Calderon’s home state.

Rocker Peter Gabriel is urging Mexican President Felipe Calderon to help clarify the killings of hundreds of women in the northern cities of Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua.

A fight between gangs at a jail in the near-lawless Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez left at least 20 prisoners dead and seven others injured.

CIUDAD Juarez’s police chief has stepped down after criminal gangs made a chilling demand: resign or they would kill one of his officers every two days.

A MEXICAN citizen who allegedly confessed to killing at least 10 women in the violent border city of Juarez is back home in his country to face justice.

Authorities in the Mexican border city of Cuidad Juarez plan to exhume the remains of thousands of people to get DNA samples that may help identify them and bring order to past police practices.

Jennifer Lopez delighted fans in her old New York neighbourhood by appearing at a record store to sign autographs and promote her first all-Spanish album.

Salma Hayek denies reports she has a $100m (€79.2m) fortune, and insists she would donate the money to the poor in her native Mexico if she was so rich.

Mexico celebrated the first of two Day of the Dead celebrations today with elaborate food- and flower-laden altars designed to guide the spirits of the deceased in their annual journey back to Earth.