Six people believed to be responsible for the prison break by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, including the elusive Mexican drug lord's brother-in-law and the suspected mastermind of the escape, have been arrested.

Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is believed to have been injured evading police in the mountains of north-western Mexico, according to officials.

Authorities in Colombia have seized one metric ton of cocaine disguised as printer ink and bound for Mexico.

Top drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has done what Mexican authorities promised would not happen again after his recapture last year — escaped for a second time from a maximum security prison.

ENGLAND: Tory prime minister David Cameron and Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls have finally found some common ground — they are both scared of rats.

Fifty-eight people are missing feared dead after a massive landslide smashed through a tiny coffee-growing village deep in Mexico’s southern mountains as storms battered the country.

The death toll from devastating twin storms battering Mexico climbed to 80 as isolated areas reported casualties and damage to the outside world.

Two sophisticated drug-smuggling tunnels outfitted with lighting and ventilation systems have been discovered along the US-Mexico border.

Drug-related violence in Mexico has claimed 50,000 lives in six years.

A “tween” squatter encampment has sprung up in Mexico City’s chaotic centre as “Beliebers” seek to be closest to the stage when teenage superstar Justin Bieber holds a free concert tonight.

US agents helped make Joaquin Guzman the most powerful drug lord in the world. Aram Roston reports

MEXICAN drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman is “the world’s most powerful drug trafficker”, according to the US Treasury Department.

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

The bound and gagged bodies of 26 men were found in the heart of Guadalajara, a sign that full-scale war between Mexican drug cartels may have come to the picturesque western city which hosted last month’s Pan American Games.

Police in Mexico have found 16 shot and burned bodies in two pick-up trucks in the western city of Culiacan.

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.

Four inmates have been found dead with their throats slashed at a prison in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Sinaloa.

President Felipe Calderon appealed to Mexicans to support the fight against organised crime in a national TV address hours after troops killed 15 suspected gang members.

Gunmen burst into a party in western Mexico and killed eight youths and left another person wounded.

WITNESSES have said the attack by armed men who stormed a party in a violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students, was prompted by false information.

MEXICAN police have captured alleged drug lord Carlos Beltran Leyva, just two weeks after his even more powerful brother was killed in a shootout with troops – back-to-back victories in President Felipe Calderon’s drug war.

Gunmen sprayed bullets at a restaurant where the mayor of a Texas border town was eating with a Mexican state attorney general and other officials, killing a woman leaving the building.

Tropical Storm Paul gained hurricane strength off Mexico's west coast today and is threatening southern Baja California, the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.