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Mexico's 'Smoking Mountain,' Popocatepetl Volcano, is living up to its Aztec name.

"Know, that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California...and it is peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they live in the manner of Amazons." So wrote Spanish author Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo of a fictional paradise governed by a black super-woman he called Queen Calafia in his 1510 novel, Adventures of ... (more)

Almost certainly the longest and certainly the most geographically ambitious film festival in the world, Mexico's Ambulante runs for 12 weeks and involves stopovers in 12 Mexican states, from Baja California in the north to Oaxaca in the south.

Named for the inspirational Yaqui general who fought alongside Pancho Villa in the Mexican revolutionary war and not the first woman in space Valentina is only one of two new insurrectionist cantinas to open in Kensington Market of late.

This resort, situated in the Riviera Maya, was the hotel chain's first property in Mexico and, since 1997, has been a favourite with families, thanks to its 24 hour All Inclusive service and vast range of activities.

According to an analysis by the Agence France Press , more Americans have been murdered in Mexico than in any other country outside the U.S. Studying statistics from the U.S. State Department, AFP found that between October 2002 and December 2012, 648 American citizens were murdered in Mexico, representing more than 40 percent of the American ... (more)

Pope Francis has named Rafael Valdez Torres, who has been serving as pastor and rector of the Shrine of Our Lord of the Miracles in San Juan Nuevo, to be the new bishop of Ensenada, Mexico, the Vatican press office said Tuesday.

A Mexican chemical company is banking on sales to Maine's coated paper producers in its new partnership with the Searsport-based GAC Chemical.

To the Editor: Rickettsia typhi is the causal agent of murine typhus, a febrile illness affecting humans worldwide .

A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, some 55 km from Mexico City, as seen from Paso de Cortes, in the Mexican central state of Puebla, on May 20, 2013.

Delvin Rodriguez is no stranger to publicity. Rodriguez has been featured on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights television program eleven times over his career.

Gisela Genschow grew up in Hamburg, Germany's major port city and home to The Hamburg Ballet.

Mexico's top security officials promised Tuesday that a new federal offensive to rescue towns besieged by the Knights Templar drug cartel in western Michoacan state would stay "until there is security and peace for all state residents." Interior Secretary Miguel Osorio Chong and his national security team met with local officials in the state ... (more)

President of China, Xi Jinping, will visit Mexico from June 4 to 6, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Federal prosecutors say three men have pleaded guilty in San Diego to planning to abduct three people who owed money for drugs.

ITALY Successful and well known language school is situated between Milan and Turin, opened in 1972 is now for sale due to retirement.

Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican's insistence that no such papal exorcism took place.

A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, some near Mexico City, as seen from Paso de Cortes, in the Mexican central state of Puebla.

What do you do if you're the head of a gigantic marine engineering company and a seafood conglomerate and the Mexican first division football club you own happen to find themselves relegated into the obscurity of the second tier? Exactly, you pool your resources, buy a shiny new club 1,000 kilometres down the road and submit your application to ... (more)

Walk the aisles of any neighborhood grocery store today and you’re as likely to find tomatoes picked in Sinaloa, Mexico, as Central California or oranges from Sao Paulo, Brazil, as Bradenton, Fla.