Pope Francis has shown public signs of irritation for the first time on his trip to Mexico, snapping at over eager crowds.

When a woman in Texas claimed that Alondra Luna Nunez was her long-lost daughter, the girl’s real parents in Mexico say they presented more than a dozen documents from baptismal records and a copy of her birth certificate to family photographs. 

Mexican federal forces have arrested the leader of the notorious Zetas drug cartel, say officials.

A mayor in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan was detained for allegedly ordering the killing of a friend and extorting her employees and street vendors in her city on behalf of a drug cartel, authorities said.

Police who raided a group home in Mexico have rescued 458 children who were forced to beg for money and suffered sexual abuse while being held against their will in filthy conditions.

Police who raided a group home in Mexico have rescued 458 children who were forced to beg for money and suffered sexual abuse while being held against their will in filthy conditions.

Mexican marines have detained one of the leaders of the La Familia drug gang which controlled Mexico State, near Mexico City, a senior security official said.

THE excitement is really mounting, it’s just a week to this year’s Lit Fest at Ballymaloe, May 16-18.

A Mexican drug lord nicknamed ‘The Craziest One’ and said to have been killed over three years ago has been shot dead in a clash with authorities.

Mexico has effectively legalised the country’s growing “self-defence” groups as security forces captured one of the four top leaders of the Knights Templar drug cartel, which vigilante groups have been fighting for the last year.

Mexico’s military has taken control of one of the country’s biggest seaports in an effort to bring drug-cartel activity under control in the western state of Michoacan.

The remnants of Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel drenched Mexico with torrential rains yesterday, flooding towns and cities and setting off landslides in a national emergency that caused at least 34 deaths.

Tropical Storm Ingrid and the remnants of Tropical Storm Manuel have drenched Mexico’s Pacific and Gulf coasts with torrential rains, flooding towns and cities and sparking a national emergency that authorities said had caused at least 33 deaths.

Four men hacked a Mexican politician to death with machetes and wounded a journalist who was apparently talking to him on the side of a road.

Mexican authorities have said that they are close to striking a deal to provide more security for a southern town where angry villagers seized control after a taxi driver was kidnapped and killed.

The dismembered bodies of 17 men were found on a farm in central Mexico, in an area disputed by violent drug cartels.

Mexican officials say the dismembered bodies of 17 slain men have been found on a farm in central Mexico, in an area disputed by violent drug cartels.

Police have found the bodies of three women who were shot dead with assault rifles on a roadside in a central Mexico state.

The bound and gagged bodies of 26 men were found in the heart of Guadalajara, a sign that full-scale war between Mexican drug cartels may have come to the picturesque western city which hosted last month’s Pan American Games.

Masked gunmen blocked traffic on a busy avenue in a Gulf of Mexico coastal city and dumped the bodies of 35 murder victims as horrified motorists watched, authorities said.

A CULT-LIKE drug cartel that challenged a rival gang by rolling five severed heads onto a disco dance floor in western Mexico was so divided and cash-strapped of late that it sought to form an alliance with that gang, police officials have confirmed.

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.

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.

A gun battle between rival drug gangs in western Mexico has left 29 men dead.

A letter purportedly signed by La Familia drug cartel announcing a one-month truce circulated in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan.

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

Mexican police recovered 18 bodies in a mass grave identified in a narco-video as the burial site for 20 men who were kidnapped a month ago in the Pacific coast city of Acapulco.

Mexican police were today searching for 22 men kidnapped at gunpoint as they travelled together in the resort city of Acapulco.

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.

President Felipe Calderon appealed to Mexicans to support the fight against organised crime in a national TV address hours after troops killed 15 suspected gang members.

Ten Mexican federal police were killed in an attack near a high school in the west of the country today.

The mayor of top Mexican tourist resort Cancun was charged with drug trafficking links today.

Twelve people tortured and killed in a cartel-plagued Mexican state were federal agents investigating organised crime, the government said, marking one of the boldest attacks on federal forces since President Felipe Calderon launched his war on drugs.

FEDERAL forces have detained 10 mayors and 18 other officials for allegedly protecting one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels in an unprecedented anti-corruption sweep in the Pacific coast state of Michoacan.

Experts were today trying to identify the decapitated bodies of 12 men found in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.

MEXICO is sending 3,300 soldiers and federal police to fight drug gangs in the border city of Tijuana, which has become a major smuggling route for cocaine and methamphetamine entering the United States.

Mexico’s newly sworn-in president sent more than 6,500 soldiers, sailors and federal police to violence-plagued Michoacan state to crack down on drug turf wars that have left hundreds dead in a wave of execution-style killings and beheadings.

Gunmen barged into a bar in central Mexico early today and tossed five human heads on the dance floor, Mexican media reported.

An earthquake measuring 5.9 rocked central Mexico today, swaying skyscrapers in the capital and frightening residents.

A conservationist trying to draw attention to the fragility of the Monarch butterflies’ winter habitats in Mexico ended a 3,000-mile flight along the insects’ migration route today.

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.