Latest: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake stunned central Mexico on Tuesday, killing at least 79 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust.

Authorities testing remains found in nine mass graves in southern Mexico have yet to find any of 43 students who disappeared after a confrontation with police.

Hector Beltran Leyva, the purported head of a feared drug gang allegedly run by his family, became the fourth brother to fall when soldiers grabbed him while dining at a seafood restaurant in Mexico.

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

A 17,886ft volcano outside Mexico City exhaled dozens of towering plumes of ash and shot fragments of glowing rock down its slopes this morning, frightening the residents of surrounding villages with hours of low-pitched roaring not heard in a decade.

A COURT in Mexico has sentenced a 14-year-old US citizen and drug gang hitman to three years in a juvenile prison for murder, kidnapping and trafficking cocaine.

An anti-violence march that began in a central Mexico state with a few hundred people and gathered thousands over a four-day trek has reached Mexico’s capital.

MEXICAN prosecutors have filed homicide charges against a 14-year-old US citizen who allegedly acted as an assassin for a drug cartel.

THE decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge in a Mexican city ravaged by fighting between two drug lords.

Ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon declared victory in Mexico’s closest presidential race ever, saying today that his 370,000-vote lead was insurmountable.

A MEXICAN governor suspended an entire state police force on Monday to shake up the force after two senior officers were accused of cutting deals with powerful drug traffickers.