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A 1-year-old girl is back with her mother a year after the Mexico City doctors who delivered her allegedly sold her to another woman.
About the same number of Mexican nationals living in the U.S. are expected to travel to Mexico City and surrounding areas for the holidays this year, despite the swine flu epidemic and the bad economy, a Mexican official said Wednesday.
A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mexican official told The Associated Press.
Some Mexico City cops are taking a bite out of more than crime. The Mexican capital is putting its 1,300 of its heaviest police officers on a diet, concerned about rapidly expanding waistlines in the force.
Tens of thousands of people have marched to protest Mexican President Felipe Calderon's decision to disband a public electricity company.
An eccentric street vendor known for his Rambo-style headband took charge of Mexico City's most populous borough Thursday — at least for a few hours.
A Mexican judge has ordered a trial for a man who opened fire with a pistol in a crowded Mexico City subway station, killing two people.
A court has ordered a Bolivian preacher kept in jail during the investigation into sabotage and kidnapping charges in the hijacking of a jetliner from the resort city of Cancun.
U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon offered humanitarian aid Tuesday to hundreds of people affected by torrential rains that flooded homes and killed at least two people in a Mexico City suburb.
Heavy rains have flooded hundreds of homes in the Mexico City metropolitan area and turned streets into rivers that dragged cars in their currents.
A lightning strike that hit a parked plane at Mexico City's airport has sent four employees working nearby to the hospital.
Mexico City has suspended its anti-kidnapping chief over a rescue attempt fraught with catastrophic errors in which police killed two of their own FBI-trained commanders and a captor shot the kidnapped woman.
Michael Jackson imitators moonwalked at Mexico's Angel of Independence, a prison in the Philippines organized a "Thriller" tribute dance, political leaders paid homage and French fans gathered at Notre Dame to sing and cry as the world mourned the King of Pop.
A strong earthquake swayed skyscrapers in Mexico City and rattled colonial buildings in neighboring Puebla state Friday, sending frightened people into the streets. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
Inmates at a Mexico City prison rioted Tuesday over restrictions on visits due to swine flu, as the country reported two more confirmed deaths, raising the toll to 74 nationwide.
Singer Jenni Rivera was freed Tuesday after spending 15 hours in detention and paying a fine for failing to declare more than $50,000 in cash at Mexico City's international airport, her publicist said.
Mexico City lowered its swine flu alert level from yellow to green on Thursday, and the mayor said "we can relax" now that there have been no new infections for a week.
Mexico's president credits a nationwide business shutdown and incessant health advice with helping contain the swine flu. But even with cases confirmed in 26 of the country's 32 states, most Mexicans see it as Mexico City's problem, and have largely ignored the restrictions.
Mexico has confirmed one more death from swine flu, bringing the national death toll to 45.
It was truly a lonely planet Saturday for street vendors and restaurateurs in Mexico City's favorite tourist spots.
Acapulco's mayor is telling tourists from Mexico City to go home, and residents are stoning their cars. Cancun's hotels are pleading for visitors to fill their empty rooms. The swine flu outbreak is remaking tourism in strange ways in a country heavily dependent on it.
In Queretaro, a rich and colorful past and presentA colorful past rich in Mexican history (Intrigue! Revolt!) is just part of the charm of this now-mellow colonial city
Union Members, Allies Protest Seizure of Mexican Utility - washingtonpost.comUnion members and their political allies filled the streets of the Mexican capital Thursday night to condemn President Felipe Calderón's recent liquidation of a state-run power utility, a surprise move seen by many as an assault on organized labor.
Mexico Puts 1,300 Cops on Diet After 70 Percent Are Overweight Mexico City - Some Mexico City cops are taking too many bites out of more than crime.
Footprints of 'first Americans'Human settlers made it to the Americas 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new evidence. A team of scientists came to this controversial conclusion by dating human footprints preserved by volcanic ash in an abandoned quarry in Mexico.
U.S. Infection Rate Set at 50% with 90,000 DeathsUp to half of the population of the U.S. could come down with the swine flu and 90,000 could die this season, according to a dire report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. More Articles
Mexico City Offers Travel Insurance for TouristsMexico City is attempting to lure tourists by offering complimentary travel insurance.
H1N1 Pandemic Spreading Too Fast to CountThe World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that the H1N1 flu pandemic was the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it was now pointless to count every case. More Articles
First 'Healthy' Swine Flu Death"We've all been gritting our teeth, waiting for this to happen, and now it has. This doesn't necessarily mean the virus has mutated. "Whether more patients with no underlying health problems die of the disease really depends on what the virus does next." More Articles
Aztec temple promises to yield one of antiquity's great treasures Archaeologists working amid the smog and din of Mexico City may be on the verge of unlocking an extraordinary time capsule.
Aztec temple promises to yield one of antiquity's great treasuresArchaeologists working amid the smog and din of Mexico City may be on the verge of unlocking an extraordinary time capsule. The leaders of a team exploring a site opened up by earthquake damage believe that they have found the first tomb of an Aztec ruler.
U.S. Flu victim was grandson of Mexico press baronThe Mexico City toddler who became the first U.S. fatality from swine flu is the grandson of a press baron who heads the Mexican Olympic Committee and serves on the board of the International Olympic Committee, sources said.
Pure Paranoia: Inside Mexico City's OutbreakI go out feeling afraid of infection - afraid of touching something on the street, on the subway, or on the bus, or even of touching other people. People, on the street or on the public transit system, look at each other with suspicion. You never know who has the virus.
Swine Flu Strikes White House Aide and FamilyA member of the U.S. delegation that helped prepare Energy Secretary Steven Chu's trip to Mexico City has demonstrated flu-like symptoms and his family members have tested probable for swine flu. See more irresistible headlines
Mexico Faces Criticism Over Swine Flu ResponseTwo weeks after the first known swine flu death, Mexico still hasn't given medicine to the families of the dead. It hasn't determined where the outbreak began or how it spread.
Obama's Host Dies from 'Flu-Like Symptoms'According to alarming reports from Mexico City, Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist who showed Mr Obama around the city's anthropology museum during his visit to Mexico earlier this month, died the next day from "flu-like symptoms".
WHO Chief: Swine Flu Has "Pandemic Potential"MEXICO CITY — Mexico's president assumed new powers Saturday to isolate people infected with a deadly swine flu strain as authorities struggled to contain an outbreak that world health officials warned could become a global epidemic.
Mother and teenage son arrested for hawking flu masks in Mexico capitalMexican police arrested two people on Saturday for hawking surgical masks for 25 times their regular price to people scurrying to cover their faces from a deadly outbreak of a new flu, a media report said.
Mexico flu: Your experiencesI work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from "under control".
Eight swine flu cases identified in U.S.Let's hope its just like the outbreaks in '76 and '88 that just 'disappeared'
Swine Flu Baffles Health ExpertsMexican authorities said 60 people may have died from a swine flu virus in Mexico, and world health officials worry it could unleash a global flu epidemic.
Swine Flu OutbreakMr. Cordova told local media the flu is a "new, different strain ... that originally came from pigs."
Mexico: 800 cases of New Swine Flu - Most cases occurring in healthy young adultsOn Thursday, Canadian health officials issued a travel advisory warning travellers who have recently returned from Mexico to be on alert for flu-like symptoms that could be connected to the illness.
Helen Levitt, No-Nonsense New YorkerHelen Levitt's photographs from the 1940s of children on New York streets, perhaps the most revealing and tender studies of play ever recorded, offer few clues about the formidable person who took them.
Heather Lockwood Scripps Howard Foundation Wire WASHINGTON - Washingtonians will find the District a little darker Saturday evening as monuments, businesses and landmarks turn off their lights.
Aztec 'warrior' mass grave found Archaeologists have found a mass grave in Mexico City with at least 49 human skeletons dating from Spain's conquest of the Aztecs in the 16th Century.
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