The death toll from a tornado that ripped through the northern Mexico border city of Ciudad Acuna has risen to 14 after searchers found the body of a baby.

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

At least 16 people were killed and 22 others injured in a collision between a passenger bus and a freight train at a crossing in northern Mexico, an official said today.

Five bodies pulled from a mass grave have been identified as some of the 12 people kidnapped three months ago from a Mexico City bar.

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A tiger mauled his trainer to death at a circus in northern Mexico in a shocking attack captured in an amateur video.

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.

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.

Mexico says it has captured one of the country’s most-wanted drug traffickers, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as “El Taliban”.

Dublin-headquartered paper and packaging business Smurfit Kappa Group has agreed to acquire US containerboard manufacturer Orange County Container Group for $340m (€260m) in a deal aimed at boosting its presence in Mexico.

Some 132 inmates have escaped from a jail in northern Mexico, sparking a search by federal police and soldiers in an area close to the US border.

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

Emergency workers have recovered the bodies of seven miners killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern Mexico.

Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of two miners after a gas explosion in a coal mine in northern Mexico.

Authorities say they’ve found the bodies of 167 people in a southern Mexican cave, and forensic experts believe the remains are at least 50 years old.

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.

Thirty-one prisoners have been killed in a fight among inmates armed with makeshift knives and clubs in a jail in northern Mexico, authorities say.

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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.

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.

Mexico’s federal security spokesman today rejected a state prosecutor’s call for drug cartels to join in some kind of truce, saying the gangs must be arrested and disbanded instead.

MEXICAN police arrested the suspected leader of a brutal drug gang called ‘The Hand with Eyes’ and he has confessed to helping carry out or ordering more than 600 murders, authorities said.

AN entire 20-man police force has resigned in a northern Mexico city after a series of attacks killed three officers.

A former police officer who allegedly admits ordering 1,500 killings during a campaign of terror as a drug gang chieftain along the US border has been captured in northern Mexico, federal officials said.

Gunmen have killed five members of a family, including two young children, in the drug cartel-plagued state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico.

Attackers killed at least 29 people – decapitating most of the victims – on a ranch in a part of northern Guatemala plagued by drug cartels.

RESCUE crews have recovered all bodies from a coal mine in northern Mexico hit by a gas explosion last week, putting the death toll at 14.

A gas explosion in a coal mine in northern Mexico killed three miners, injured one and left 11 others trapped deep underground.

THE number of murder victims unearthed in mass graves in northern Mexico this month has risen to 279, making it easily the worst discovery of its kind since the government began a campaign against drug cartels.

Fifty-nine bodies were found buried in a series of pits in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, near the site where suspected drug gang members massacred 72 migrants last summer, officials said.

Hooded gunmen killed the mayor of a small town in the northern Mexico state of San Luis Potosi, and prosecutors announced the arrest of seven suspects in the massacre of 72 migrants in August.

The mass grave of 72 victims in Mexico’s increasingly violent drug wars has been unearthed by government troops.

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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.

AT least 18 gunmen have been killed in clashes after drug gangs tried to blockade army bases in northern Mexico, military officials said yesterday.

At least 18 gunmen have been killed in clashes after drug gangs tried to blockade army bases in northern Mexico, military officials said today.

A fight among inmates at a prison in northern Mexico killed 19 inmates and left more than 20 injured, Durango state officials said.

SOBBING relatives waited outside a mortuary to claim the bodies from a daycare fire that killed 38 children in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts to evacuate babies and toddlers through the building’s only working exit.

Sobbing relatives waited outside a mortuary to claim the bodies from a day-care fire that killed 38 children in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts to evacuate babies and toddlers through the building’s only working exit.