Fifty-two inmates have been killed and 12 injured in a brutal fight between two rival factions at a prison in northern Mexico.

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

A Mexican man once listed as the world’s heaviest human being has died at the age of 48.

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At least eight bodies have been pulled from a well in northern Mexico, near the site where 20 people went missing late last week, including 16 members of a Colombian-style band, a state forensic official said today.

At least 15 people who play in a Colombian-style band have vanished after playing in a bar in northern Mexico.

A man believed to be the leader of the Gulf drug cartel, which controls some of the most valuable and violently contested smuggling routes along the US border, was arrested by Mexican marines and paraded before the public.

A man believed to be the leader of the Gulf drug cartel, which controls some of the most valuable and violently contested smuggling routes along the US border, has been arrested by Mexican marines, the navy said.

Gunmen killed eight people in an attack on a bar in the northern Mexico city of Monterrey.

Suspected drug cartel killers in Mexico dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey, a sickening atrocity that prompted the government to condemn the “inhuman” violence plaguing the country.

Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found dumped on a northern Mexico highway in what appeared to be the latest carnage in the escalating war between Mexico’s two dominant drug cartels.

Dozens of bodies, at least some of them mutilated, were found today dumped on a motorway near the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, officials said.

A prison riot in northern Mexico left at least 44 people dead early yesterday, according to a security official.

A prison riot in northern Mexico left about 20 people dead today.

A STATE police officer has been arrested in connection with last week’s arson fire at a casino that killed 52 people in northern Mexico.

Authorities in northern Mexico say they are searching for another seven suspects over an arson attack at a casino that killed 52 people.

FIVE men have been arrested in connection with an arson attack last week on a casino in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey that killed 52 people, said state governor of Nuevo Leon Rodrigo Medina.

MEXICAN President Felipe Calderon declared three days of mourning yesterday and demanded a crackdown on drugs in the US after armed men torched a casino in northern Mexico, killing at least 52 people.

Workers were today continuing to pull bodies out of a burned casino in northern Mexico, where gunmen spread petrol and ignited a fire which trapped and killed at least 53 patrons and employees.

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.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova made an uncertain start to the defence of her Monterrey Open title after being pushed all the way in her first-round encounter with Eleni Daniilidou.

MEXICAN soldiers seized 105 tonnes of marijuana with a US street value of more than $340 million (€246m) on Monday in Mexico’s biggest-ever pot haul, the army said.

The Jonas Brothers have cancelled a concert in the Mexican city of Monterrey because of security fears.

Mexican authorities arrested an alleged trafficker known as “The Tiger” who they say shipped a half-ton of drugs to the US each month and may have been poised to take over for a dead boss in the Sinaloa cartel.

Mexico looked beyond its drug war and looming Atlantic storms today to throw a 200th birthday bash celebrating a proud history, whimsical culture and resilience embodied in the traditional independence cry: “Viva Mexico!”

AT least 25 suspected drug gang members were killed in an army raid in rural northeastern Mexico, the army said in a press release.

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.

INVESTIGATORS said they have found 51 corpses in two days of digging in a field near a rubbish dump outside the northern city of Monterrey, as excavations continued at one of the largest clandestine body dumping grounds in Mexico’s bloody drug war.

The death toll in Mexico from flooding caused by former Hurricane Alex rose to six, authorities said.

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

Federal police arrested Mexico’s ’King of Heroin’, a powerful drug trafficker allegedly responsible for running thousands of pounds of heroin into Southern California each year, authorities said.

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.

Eva Longoria Parker said she is going back to school to learn about her Mexican roots.

Gunmen murdered a Mexican state congressional candidate and his wife and two sons at their home.

ONE of Mexico’s most-wanted drug smugglers, whose nickname “la burra” — female donkey — belies his power as the alleged trafficker controlling drugs in the northern city of Monterrey, has been captured.

THE world’s heaviest man has got married.

Ireland's Ralph Firman is eighth on the starting grid for tonight's Mexican A1 Grand Prix sprint race in Monterrey.

Actress Salma Hayek has lent her support to groups helping battered women in her native Mexico through a series of generous donations.

The Mexican government promised justice for British pop singer Kirsty MacColl today the night after U2 dedicated a song to her in a concert in the Mexican city of Monterrey.

Canadian Sean McIntosh’s reward for winning a thrilling Indonesian A1 Grand Prix from the back of the grid will be a seat on the sidelines in a fortnight’s time.

At least two people died and 44 were injured when a tanker carrying liquid propane gas struck the side of a freight train near Mexico’s border with the US.

A weakened Hurricane Emily triggered flooding outside Mexico’s third-largest city last night after demolishing homes, toppling trees and sparking thousands of evacuations on the northern Gulf Coast.