US authorities have discovered a cross-border tunnel that ran half a mile from Mexico, seizing more than a ton of cocaine and seven tons of marijuana.

Authorities seized 12 tonnes of marijuana and arrested 22 people after discovering one of the longest cross-border tunnels between the US and Mexico, officials said.

Argentine customs found 30kg of cocaine hidden in a way they had never seen before, absorbed in of rice headed for Europe via Africa. It was detected by dogs.

Anchorman actress goes on very different car journeys in her next two movies, writes Jeananne Craig

The son of a Mexican wrestling legend died early on Saturday from a blow suffered in the ring, the Baja California state prosecutor’s office said.

Nuclear experts have begun the delicate task of recovering a stolen shipment of highly radioactive cobalt-60 abandoned in a Mexican field.

A tunnel designed to smuggle drugs from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego was equipped with lighting, ventilation, and an electric rail system, US authorities said, making it one of the most sophisticated secret passages discovered along the US-Mexico border.

A tunnel designed to smuggle drugs from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego was equipped with lighting, ventilation and an electric rail system, US authorities said, making it one of the most sophisticated secret passages discovered along the US-Mexico border.

Delia O’Callaghan spent 15 years building a successful life in the US but one day found herself behind bars. Colette Sheridan hears how she drew from her experience for her new book.

Anabel Hernandez’s book exposed Mexico’s bloody narco war, the corrupt state and its cartel bosses. David Kernek meets the mother who took on the drugs lords

The mayor of San Diego announced he will undergo therapy after several women accused him of sexual harassment that included kissing and groping but resisted widespread calls for his resignation.

In a 1997 episode of 'The Simpsons', rotund patriarch Homer stood before the residents of Springfield with a glass of cold beer and encouraged his neighbours to join him in a toast. “To alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems,” he professed.

At least eight people are dead and 38 people injured after a tour bus collided with two other vehicles in the mountains of Southern California early today.

Senior Mexican drug cartel leader Heriberto Lazcano has apparently been killed in a fight with marines in the northern border state of Coahuila, the navy said.

Irish students on J1 holidays in the US city of San Diego are being warned against traveling to Mexico to avoid US drinking laws.

A San Diego police sergeant has warned J1 students of the dangers of crossing the border into Mexico where Irish under-21s have been travelling congregating to avoid US drinking laws.

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

IN the days before Dearly Beloved and I were blessed with those small, nocturnal creatures that subsist on a strict diet of hard cash and parental resolve, we were fond of Star Anise for a little mid-week morale booster.

More than 80 people were arrested in New York in the latest demonstrations against corporate greed which sparked global protests.

WHILE travel agents and magazines can offer plenty of advice and choice, the world’s greatest experts on the art of travel and leisure are film stars, who rely on teams of personal assistants to choose the finest beaches and far-flung paradises.

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.

Liam Casey saw a potential gap in a rapidly developing market. Now the Cork-born entrepreneur employs 1,200 people across the globe, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

FIFTEEN Mexican police officers have been suspended after a video showed them forcing a young woman to perform a lap dance, apparently in exchange for not arresting or charging her.

BONES and teeth of potential victims of drug trafficking gangs were found in Tijuana on land owned by a man who in 2009 confessed to disposing 300 bodies in vats of acid, officials have said.

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

Gunmen killed 15 people at a car wash in a Pacific coast state where drug-gang violence has risen this year – the third massacre in Mexico in less than a week.

At least 13 people were killed today after gunmen opened fire at a car wash in western Mexico, officials said.

Mexico’s largest-ever seizure of marijuana packaged for sale weighs a massive 134 tons – far more than originally estimated, authorities said.

MEXICAN soldiers seized 105 tonnes of marijuana with a US street value of more than $340 million (€246m) on Monday in Mexico’s biggest-ever pot haul, the army said.

Mexican security forces seized at least 105 tons of US-bound marijuana in the border city of Tijuana, by far the biggest pot bust in the country in recent years.

A POWERFUL earthquake swayed buildings from Los Angeles to Tijuana, killing two people in Mexico, blacking out cities and forcing the evacuation of hospitals and nursing homes.

A powerful earthquake swayed buildings from Los Angeles to Tijuana, killing two people in Mexico, blacking out cities and forcing the evacuation of hospitals.

Federal police arrested Mexico’s ’King of Heroin’, a powerful drug trafficker allegedly responsible for running thousands of pounds of heroin into Southern California each year, authorities said.

MEXICAN police have arrested a suspected top supplier of heroin to the United States, known as “The King of Heroin,” security officials said yesterday.

JUST a few weeks ago, the two officers were lauded as part of a new breed of honest cop, elevated to become key players in a drive to overhaul one of Mexico’s most notorious police forces.

Mexican federal police arrested two suspected gang leaders, delivering another big blow to a brutal drug cartel that terrorised the border city of Tijuana for several year

A Mexican prison brawl left 23 inmates dead today.

Federal troops stormed a seaside holiday home and captured one of the country’s most brutal drug lords, the second time in less than a month that Mexico took one of its most powerful traffickers off the streets.

The severed heads of six state police investigators were found on a public plaza in the northern Mexican state of Durango.

Firefighters have found six bodies inside a burning car in the Mexican border town of Tijuana.

A powerful earthquake shook fishing villages along Mexico’s Gulf of California today.

FEDERAL forces have detained 10 mayors and 18 other officials for allegedly protecting one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels in an unprecedented anti-corruption sweep in the Pacific coast state of Michoacan.

Boxing promoter Bob Arum has handed John Duddy a lifeline to a world title shot after putting the Irish contender on the Miguel Cotto-Michael Jennings undercard later this month.

Mexican officials say 21 prisoners have died in a fight between inmates at a prison in the border city of Reynosa.