A DOCTOR who certified dead a Mexican baby which later revived in its coffin has been charged with homicide.

A doctor who certified dead a Mexican baby which later revived in its coffin has been charged with homicide.

The sprawling remains of Hurricane Alex has drenched much of northern Mexico, paralysing the major city of Monterrey.

Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, flooded streets and forced thousands of people to flee coastal fishing villages today as it pushed into northern Mexico after making landfall as a powerful Category 2 storm.

A 2-year-old US boy who died with a fractured skull may have been accidentally crushed by a morbidly obese relative, authorities say.

Hurricane Dean limped across Mexico today as a weakened tropical depression, but still dumped torrential rains that flooded rivers and drenched mudslide-prone mountains.