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.

Fulham left-back Carlos Salcido has completed a permanent move to Mexican club Tigres de la UANL.

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.

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.

Fulham full-back Carlos Salcido has joined Mexican outfit Tigres on a season-long loan deal.

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.

The image of the beach resort of Acapulco has taken a new hit from Mexico’s drug violence, with 27 people killed in less than a day, including 14 men whose bodies were found with their heads chopped off at a shopping centre.

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

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!”

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.

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 25 suspected cartel members in a raid and gun battle near the US border that has seen a surge in drug gang violence.

MEXICAN authorities yesterday began identifying 72 suspected migrants believed murdered for refusing to become hitmen for a drug cartel.

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.

A drugs-war gun battle erupted on the main coast boulevard in the heart of Mexico’s tourist mecca Acapulco, killing six people, including an eight-year-old girl and her mother.

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 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.

A group of Mexicans have baked a giant Christmas cake weighing in at 13,400 kilograms.