Mexico City | 2 days ago
Mexican cabbie sentenced to 163 years for raping passengers
Mexico City, Feb 12 - A Mexico City taxi driver who kidnapped and raped several of his female passengers was sentenced to 163 years in prison, authorities said.Valentin Mendez Cortes raped two passengers and kidnapped and sexually abused three other women, the capital District Attorney's Office said in a communique. Sexual assaults in taxis and armed robberies on public buses are common occurrence ... read more

Mexico City | 3 days ago
Four human heads found in Mexico
Mexico City, Feb 11 - The heads of four people were found in Mexico, but the bodies have not yet been recovered, officials said.Three of the heads were found in the northwestern state of Sinaloa and the fourth turned up in the southern state of Guerrero. Three of the heads were found Tuesday at 7 a.m. in front of a restaurant and a school in Palmillas, a town in Sinaloa, said a spokesman for the s ... read more

Mexico City | 5 days ago
Earthquake rattles southern Mexico
Mexico City, Feb 9 - Southern Mexico was roiled Monday evening by an earthquake registering a magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale, the country's national seismological service said.There were no immediate reports of damage. The epicentre was off the coast of the state of Oaxaca. In Mexico City, high-rise buildings were evacuated, though the quake was not widely felt in the capital. ... read more

Mexico City | 9 days ago
Greenpeace occupies Aztec-god sculpture in Mexico protest
Mexico City, Feb 5 - Greenpeace staged a protest in this Mexican capital to press demands for an effective climate-change treaty, occupying the fountain that famed artist Diego Rivera dedicated to Tlaloc, the Aztec god of rain.Amid a torrential downpour, unusual at this time of year in Mexico City, Greenpeace activists draped a banner with the message 'Help! Treaty Needed to Save the Climate. Now! ... read more

New Delhi | 10 days ago
World leaders to gather for Delhi sustainable summit
New Delhi, Feb 4 - Leaders from various regions of the world will gather here for the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit - beginning Friday, the first major global meeting after the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009.The theme of the three-day meet, being organised by The Energy Research Institute -, is 'Beyond Copenhagen: new pathways to sustainable development'. It will be inaugurated ... read more

Mexico City | 13 days ago
13 killed in birthday party shooting in Mexico
Mexico City, Feb 1 - At least 13 people were killed and 16 injured when a group of gunmen attacked a birthday party in Ciudad Juarez city of Mexico, officials said.About 60 people, most of them teenage students, were attending the party Sunday when more than 20 gunmen came in seven vehicles and opened fire inside the house in Juarez near Texas border, eyewitnesses said. Two adults and 11 teenagers ... read more

Mexico City | 14 days ago
Archaeologists trace millennium-old Maya culture
Mexico City, Jan 31 - Archaeologists in Mexico have claimed to have found a sarcophagus belonging to a nearly thousand-year-old Maya civilisation.The researchers at the Mayan acropolis of Tonina working in the jungles of the southern state of Chiapas discovered a sarcophagus which could help clear up the mystery of the fall of the Maya civilisation. Juan Yadeun, who heads the team in Ocosingo, sai ... read more

15 days ago
271,000 Mexicans slip into poverty in US
Mexico City, Jan 31 - About 271,000 Mexican immigrants have slipped into poverty in the US, Spanish banking giant BBVA said in a report. It said between the fourth quarter of 2008 and the same period last year, 'the number of workers of Mexican origin with jobs decreased by approximately 560,000'. For that reason, the number of workers of Mexican origin who are currently unemployed increased to ... read more

Mexico City | 15 days ago
Five policemen killed in Mexico
Mexico City, Jan 31 - Five Mexican police officers were killed and seven wounded in an ambush by an armed group in the southwestern state of Michoacan, officials said.The attack took place around 3.30 p.m. Friday on the Mexico City-Morelia-Guadalajara highway near the town of Maravatio, when gunmen opened fire on a federal police patrol, the Public Safety Secretariat in Michoacan told EFE Saturday ... read more

15 days ago
Francisco Hernandez wins Mexican literary prize
Mexico City, Jan 30 - Mexican poet Francisco Hernandez has won the 2010 edition of the Mazatlan Literature Prize for his work 'La isla de las breves ausencias' -, organisers said in a statement. 'La isla de las breves ausencias' is the second book on poetry to win the Mazatlan Prize in its 36-year history. The other work by Jose Gorostiza was the inaugural winner of this literary contest in 1965 ... read more