Fifty-eight people are missing feared dead after a massive landslide smashed through a tiny coffee-growing village deep in Mexico’s southern mountains as storms battered the country.

Drug-related violence in Mexico has claimed 50,000 lives in six years.

Police in Mexico have found 16 shot and burned bodies in two pick-up trucks in the western city of Culiacan.

Four inmates have been found dead with their throats slashed at a prison in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Sinaloa.

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

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.

MEXICAN police have captured alleged drug lord Carlos Beltran Leyva, just two weeks after his even more powerful brother was killed in a shootout with troops – back-to-back victories in President Felipe Calderon’s drug war.