Some 132 inmates have escaped from a jail in northern Mexico, sparking a search by federal police and soldiers in an area close to the US border.

Emergency workers have recovered the bodies of seven miners killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern Mexico.

Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of two miners after a gas explosion in a coal mine in northern Mexico.

Seven miners are trapped underground after a methane gas explosion at a small coal mine near Mexico’s northern border.

A man who is picketing outside his local council to get a bigger home for his eight children said he wants to have at least two more babies.

A screaming teenager with a gunshot wound has been found dangling from a rope over a busy highway in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.

AN anonymous, twenty-something blogger is giving Mexicans what they can’t get elsewhere – an inside view of their country’s raging drug war.

GUARDS and officials at a prison in northern Mexico let inmates out, lent them guns and allowed them to use official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings, including the massacre of 17 people, prosecutors claimed.

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.

Gunmen sprayed bullets at a restaurant where the mayor of a Texas border town was eating with a Mexican state attorney general and other officials, killing a woman leaving the building.

A US SECURITY consultant who negotiated the release of dozens of kidnap victims in Latin America has himself been kidnapped by masked gunmen in northern Mexico.

A MARIACHI dinosaur with a head for music has been discovered in Mexico.

At least 37 people were killed today when a truck carrying mining explosives blew up after colliding with another vehicle in northern Mexico near the town of Sacramento.

A series of explosions at an assembly plant in the Mexican border state of Coahuila forced the evacuation of thousands of residents near the industrial city of Monclova today.

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.

Rescue workers chipped away at walls of debris separating them from 65 Mexican coal miners today, as family members desperate for word on their trapped relatives threatened to rush past soldiers guarding the pit.

Relatives of 65 coal miners trapped underground for almost two days after a gas explosion grew increasingly desperate and frustrated today, as rescue workers provided no real news of their loved ones.

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 gas explosion today in a northern Mexico coal mine trapped 66 miners below ground with a limited supply of oxygen, government and company officials said.

RAGING flood waters killed at least 31 people on Monday when they crashed through a normally arid town in northern Mexico close to the US border.

A flash flood swept through a northern Mexican city, killing at least 31 people caught in the path of an overflowing river, forcing hundreds into shelters, and damaging homes and cars.

The bodies of three Mexican miners have been recovered after an accident flooded a small coal mine in Northern Mexico.