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.

A strengthening Tropical Storm Andres roared toward Mexico’s Pacific coast today, prompting emergency preparations for a storm that forecasters predicted would become the season’s first hurricane.

At least 28 people died after a train smashed into a bus on a level crossing in Cuba.

BLESSED with charm and good looks, Sandra Avila Beltran is enthralling Mexico. Not as a beauty queen, but as an alleged drug lord.

German supermodel Heidi Klum and singer Seal have married in Mexico, her father has confirmed.

The Mexican navy seized more than two tons of cocaine aboard a fishing boat off the country’s southern Pacific coast.

A POWERFUL earthquake has ripped through western and central Mexico, killing at least 23 people and injuring about 160 as dozens of homes and buildings collapsed.

At least 19 people were killed when a strong earthquake shook west-central Mexico sending panicked residents spilling into the streets of major cities and knocking out power to many areas, officials said today.