Violent clashes between police and members of a radical teachers' union who had blockaded a highway in southern Mexico have left six people dead and more than 100 injured, officials said.

The prime suspect in the massacre of 11 members of a Mexican family is an alleged rapist seeking revenge against a victim who landed him in jail.

René Redzepi ignited an international culinary revolution with Noma, his restaurant focused on wildly innovative Nordic cuisine. Now, believing that Mexican food is the next big thing, the Scandinavian wunderkind eats his way across the country.

Retrospective opens simultaneously at Dublin’s IMMA and Carlow’s Visual, says Des O’Sullivan.

Renowned TV chef, cook and cookbook author whose latest book is Rachel’s Everyday Kitchen.

An indigenous woman squats in pain after giving birth, her newborn still bound by the umbilical cord and lying on the ground. It’s a photograph that horrified Mexicans because of where it took place: the lawn outside a medical clinic where the woman had been denied help, and it struck a nerve in a country where inequity is still pervasive.

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.

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Last week, I promised I would share some more of the gems cooked by the guest chefs at the Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine 2013.

I FIND myself dreaming of Mexican breakfasts weeks before I travel.

Tropical Storm Ernesto has weakened to a tropical depression as it moves inland over Mexico, killing seven people and dumping rains in the mountains of Mexico’s flood-prone southern Gulf region.

Tropical Storm Ernesto has hit Mexico, killing two people as it moved inland and began drenching the flood-prone southern Gulf region.

Central Mexico has been rattled by a moderate 5.2-magnitude aftershock, following a 7.4 earthquake earlier in the week.

A strong, long 7.6 earthquake with an epicentre in Guerrero state shook central southern Mexico today, swaying buildings in Mexico City and sending frightened workers and residents into the streets.

Mexican marines have captured a founding member of the brutal Zetas drug cartel, the navy announced.

DOZENS of armed villagers surrounded the home of a suspected crime gang in southern Mexico, setting off a gun battle that killed a child, a woman and four men.

Workers at world-famous archaeological sites in the Mexican state of Oaxaca have gone on strike, shutting dozens of tourists out of pre-Colombian ruins, museums and former convents.

The leader of a leftist Indian group left disabled by a previous assassination attempt was shot to death by gunmen riding on a motorcycle in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca.

Rescue efforts resumed today for 11 people missing after a huge hillside collapsed on a town in Mexico as a landslide in a neighbouring state killed 16 people.

A huge mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left only 11 missing with no confirmed dead, authorities said today.

A HILLSIDE collapsed on hundreds of sleeping residents yesterday in a rural Mexican community drenched for days by a hurricane and a tropical storm, killing at least seven and leaving at least 100 missing, disaster officials said.

Hundreds of people were feared dead after a hillside collapsed burying more than 100 homes in Mexico today.

A strong earthquake rattled the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca today, and was felt at least as far away as Mexico City, seismologists said.

This is a recipe from Oaxaca in Mexico. If you can’t find smoked or sun-dried Mexican chillies you can use dried Spanish ones instead, though the smoked ones are so good it is probably worth buying some from coolchile.co.uk.

Protesters will gather at the Mexican embassy in Dublin later.

Gunmen ambushed a humanitarian convoy in a remote, volatile area of southern Mexico, killing a Finnish man and a Mexican activist.

IN JANUARY 2002 a tall gangly irrepressible girl with thick dark curly hair and a wonderful gappy smile arrived at Ballymaloe Cookery School in a cute little Renault Deux CV.

A bus has tonight plunged into a ravine in the remote mountains of southern Mexico, killing at least 29 people, officials said.

Quesadillas are one of the favourite snacks in Mexico. On Sundays in Oaxaca there are little stalls on the streets and squares with women making and selling these delicious stuffed tortillas. They flavoured them with an aromatic leaf called Hoja Santa or Epazote, and fill with shredded chicken and fiery tomato sauce.

Mexican police arrested the symbolic leader of a six-month-long protest movement that took over southern Oaxaca city, hours after he gave a news conference saying he had come to the capital to start talks with the government.

A 15-year-old boy was killed as police took control of a Mexican city which has been held by protesters for five months.

MEL GIBSON describes his anti-Semitic rant following his arrest for drink-driving in July “the stupid ramblings of a drunkard”.

MASSIVE waves generated by a storm 2,000 miles away battered a long stretch of the Pacific coast yesterday, wrecking homes, hotels and restaurants from Peru to Central America.

MEXICO and four Central American nations have condemned a US plan to build hundreds of miles of triple-layered fencing on its southern border, saying it would not stop illegal immigration.

There was a violent shudder and a roar, and then the side of a volcano gave way, burying two villages under a rush of mud and flood waters.

Rescue workers today searched for victims of a mudslide near a volcano-ringed lake popular with tourists in Guatemala, as the death toll from flooding sparked by heavy rains climbed to 79 across the country and 65 in neighbouring El Salvador.

Hurricane Stan knocked down trees, ripped roofs off homes and washed out bridges in south-eastern Mexico – but the storms it helped spawn proved far more destructive, killing more than 65 people in Central America.

An earthquake has struck southern Mexico, cracking walls of houses and a hospital.