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MEXICO CITY a " Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says politicians in the United States should focus on building bridges instead of walls on the U.S. border with Mexico.Villaraigosa says Los Angeles has greatly benefited from the cultural diversity of its residents.

Columbus Police reported Sunday afternoon Dr. Roberto Fierro, a Palomas, Mexico, dentist, was still in the hands of men who kidnapped from his clinic at gunpoint last Wednesday afternoon.

The Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco has won the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor - the Cervantes Prize, Spain's Culture Ministry said Monday.

The cases of empty Shiner beer bottles are stacked in the Rev. Jairo Lopez's garage.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico: At least 17 people were killed over the weekend in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua, including a women's rights activist in Ciudad Juarez, on the US border, local officials said Sunday.

Bodies covered by white sheets lie on the road next to the wreckage of a passenger bus at the site of an accident on the outskirts of Saltillo, Mexico, March 16, 2009.

Colombian maritime authorities searched Sunday for an Italian chef believed to have gone overboard from a U.S. cruise ship off Colombia's Caribbean coast, officials and the man's family said.

Residents of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca held an unusual beauty pageant celebrating a group of homosexual men who don elaborate makeup, wear traditional dresses and crown a queen, all with the support and excitement of the local community.

Mexico's drug war is entering its fourth year. Its H1N1 flu outbreak began with dozens of deaths and global headlines in the spring.

Mount Vernon, Ind. police say that murder suspect Lee Kershaw was arrested in Acapulco Mexico within the last 48 hours and is now in US custody in Phoenix, Arizona.

NACO, Ariz. a ' U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have seized more than 100 pounds of marijuana from the bumpers and doors of a car that was stopped at the Naco port of entry.

Police in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras say they have arrested three Italians accused of selling counterfeit electronic devices.

A street vendor-turned-politician has thrown Mexico City's most populous district into political chaos by trying to reclaim the post of borough chief he won as a stand-in candidate in July elections.

Mexican soldiers captured six suspected drug gang members with an odd collection of weapons, including a .50-calibre rifle and a gold-plated pistol, the army said Friday.

Bison have returned to Mexico for the first time since the 1800s, with Mexican authorities releasing 23 donated U.S. animals in northern Chihuahua state.

In Chiapas, the southernmost state in Mexico, green is never simply green. In the streets of San CristA3bal de las Casas, the hill town in the middle of Chiapas's central plateau, it's a shiny layer of Kelly spread thickly across the facade of a Spanish colonial home.

With her love for sprawling, complicated plots and colourful detail, no wonder it took Barbara Kingsolver 10 years to write her latest novel.

Stockton astronaut Jose Hernandez has left the country once again, but this time his feet are still planted firmly on Earth.

Mexican cabarets marked the Roman Catholic nation's emerging social liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s.

Experimental planting scheme has insufficient controls to prevent gene flow to native crops, critcs say.

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HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > SHOWBIZ > Domingo to play Christmas concert in Mexico SHOWBIZ Wednesday November 25,2009 Tenor PLACIDO DOMINGO will give fans in Mexico an early Christmas treat next month when he plays a free concert in the capital Mexico City.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that the top priority in the second half of his term will be reducing poverty, after the war against drug cartels took center stage in the first three years of his administration.

Residents in the violent Mexican border city of Juarez will soon be able to report crime through an anonymous international tip line.

Two years after passing a civil unions law for gay and lesbian couples, Mexico City is preparing to debate gay marriage, the AFP reported.

Earthquakes continue to rattle the California-Mexico border but there are no reports of damage or injuries.

MEXICO CITY A NASA Astronaut Jose Hernande+ says he has no plans to leave his job a4 NASA, bu4 hopes to hel0 Mexico's program get off the ground.

U.S. Customs agents have arrested two people and seized nearly 30 pounds of heroin.

Despite pulling out of Formula One, BMW is taking part in the young driver initiative at Jerez with Alexander Rossi and Esteban Gutierrez testing with the Hinwil-based team.

Firefighters worldwide share a number of traits, the most prominent being the desire to help their neighbors when disaster strikes.

MEXICO CITY: Thousands of Mexicans rallied yesterday to show support for 'shadow president' Manuel Lopez Obrador-who believes his country's top job was stolen from him in 2006 -- at the mid-point of his would-be presidential term.

A U.S. consular official said Monday that an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros.

The mayor of a wealthy suburb of this northern industrial city said Monday that he has sent his family to the United States for their own safety as he pursues his campaign against extortion and kidnapping gangs.

A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customers who place a premium on avoiding inspections: Mexican drug smugglers.

Federal and state governments are missing a great opportunity to use the stimulus to aid the poor and minority communities hardest hit by the Great Recession Published: 3 hours, 34 minutes ago Provided by: Time Magazine Families protest deadly China mine disaster Relatives of victims of a blast at a Chinese coal mine scuffled demanded answers from ...

Mirna Torres salsas with a gray-bearded man for $1.50 a dance in the Barba Azul, a dark yet garish cabaret decorated like an erotic carnival fun house.

JOHN CUSACK MIGHT SURVIVE the end of the world in the new movie "2012," but if you want the real story of unlocking the Mayan calendar, experience Chabot's new digital full-dome show "Tales of the Maya Skies." Produced by Chabot Space and Science Center, the show explores the cosmology of the ancient Maya, their culture and contributions to ...

President Calderon is trying to become a leader on climate change. But is it all for show? By Michael E. Miller - Special to GlobalPost Published: November 22, 2009 10:24 ET MEXICO CITY, Mexico - The communal lands outside San Juan del Rio are a world away from the plush boardrooms of Copenhagen.

To avenge the arrest of their leader, Mexican drug cartel commandos went on a rampage last summer across the lawless state of Michoacan, seizing 12 Mexican police officers and dumping their corpses in a pile beside a busy highway.

Hand in hand, my daughter and I started climbing and counting steps ... 118, 119 and, finally, 120.

A hundred pieces arrived in Mexico as part of the exhibition Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples.

Successive grenade attacks on police facilities left one person injured and caused damage in central Mexico, in violence that offials said could be linked to the arrest of an alleged drug boss.

A top drug cartel suspect who turned state's evidence has been found dead in an apparent suicide, while a body found in Guerrero state was identified as a rebel leader who accused the state governor of drug ties, Mexican law enforcement said Saturday.

For the past year, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana has traveled the world offering to place his nation's forests under international supervision if other countries paid his citizens not to deforest the tropical landscapes.

U.S. assistance to help Mexico fight drug traffickers will probably continue beyond the allotted three years of the Merida Initiative, with expanding cooperation but not joint law enforcement or military operations "on Mexican soil any time soon," a senior Obama administration official said.

World stock markets fell amid mounting concerns about the pace of the U.S. economic recovery following a disappointing earnings update from computer maker Dell Inc.

A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego.

Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.

You have only to read the actual schedules of the new, 220,000-ton, 6,000-passenger Oasis of the Seas to understand the revolutionary nature of the changes it will bring about.

In the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, the archaeologists Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery have gained a remarkable insight into the origin of religion.

Share + Nov 20, 2009 12:00 am US/Eastern Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2009.

Police in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez say four state police officers were killed and two others were injured in two separate attacks Thursday.

Reporting from Tijuana - El Churrero -- the Churro Man -- sidesteps tamale carts, squeezes between bumpers and beggars, working 24 lanes of idling vehicles.

Cash-strapped Mexico City is pressing ahead with new bus lines and bike lanes in 2010, buoyed by prestigious recognition for a world-class transit system that has reduced pollution in one of the globe's largest cities.

The violence in JuA rez claimed the life of a member of a prominent El Paso business family.

LTMexico Budget,0099 Mexico approves $244 billion budget Eds:APNewsNow. MEXICO CITY Mexico's leaders have approved a $244 billion budget for 2010, a slight increase from 2009 despite an economic crisis.

In his final dispatch from the drug-fuelled war along the US-Mexican border, our correspondent profiles the deadly army which rules its territory through murder and ruthless intimidation of public officials a ' with the multibillion-dollar narcotics trade as its prize Gabriela was riding the Number 20 bus into Reynosa in north-eastern Mexico when ...

Lawmakers in Veracruz made it Mexico's 17th state to pass legislation declaring life begins at conception, then adopted a proposal that requires Congress to consider amending the constitution to outlaw abortion.

By early Sunday, 11 more residents of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, had been slain in a 20-hour period, including the sixth police officer killed this year in growing drug cartel violence.

Artist Jose Cisneros, known for his vivid depictions of the people and culture of the Southwest, has died in El Paso.

A 7-year-old boy who attended school in El Paso has been slain in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in shootings that also left his father dead.

Mexican police arrest Santiago Iniguez Olivares. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Santiago Iniguez Olivares accused of bludgeoning Modesta Navarro Nieves because he thought she put a spell on him Olivares had been on the run until recently, when he returned to the area because he thought murder had been forgotten Authorities arrested a woman in June 2008 in ...

Mexicana Airlines is dropping its non-stop service between Edmonton and Mexico City in January, and adding an extra flight from Calgary.

The travel company president who has arranged Mayor Ray Nagin's upcoming trip to Merida Mesico which was reported in the Times Picayune has responded angrily to the TP story.

This spring when H1N1 flu first surfaced in Mexico younger people were hit the hardest, however, the elderly had a higher risk of dying, researchers said.

Mexico's Ciudad Juarez is one of the world's most dangerous cities, plagued by battles between drug gangs.

Northern Mexico's Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York's American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America's last Indian massacres lay in storage for more than a century.

By Ioan Grillo MEXICO CITY, Mexico a ' Like on any other Monday morning, reporter Bladimir Antuna kissed his family goodbye and set off in his Ford SUV to work the crime beat at a local newspaper in Durango city.

Stowed away on cargo ships and unsure where their dangerous journeys will take them, increasing numbers of African immigrants are arriving in Latin America as European countries tighten border controls.

MIAHUATLA N, Mexico - During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo's son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling family in Mexico.

Organizations alarmed by the increased violence against women and others in Mexico are traveling by caravan to demand justice for the victims.

The U.S. International Trade Commission said Friday it will continue its antidumping probe into seamless pipes imported from China as earlier investigations suggest the domestic industry is hurt by their lower prices.

SAN DIEGO a " Authorities say four Mexican nationals rescued from an overturned boat off the coast of Tijuana have been returned to their country and four others remain hospitalized in San Diego.The group of seven men and a pregnant woman were picked up by a Canadian sailing vessel Friday in Mexican waters and taken to Shelter Island.U.S. Customs ...

Eds: APNewsNow. Moving on general news, financial and lifestyles services. MEXICO CITY Mexico is planning a big new tourism center near the U.S. border along the Gulf of Mexico.

Canada, China, Mexico and others are using a weekend meeting of Pacific Rim leaders to press the United States to reduce trade barriers it has thrown up in the wake of the global recession.

Mexico City, Nov 13 The rhinoceros fossils kept in a museum in western Mexico belonged to an ancient rhino species called Teleoceras hicksi that lived more than four million years ago, scientists have said.

Fifteen people, including a child, three women and a university professor, have been killed in a single day in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said today.

Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Mexico revoked the environmental authorization Friday for a Canadian-owned open-pit gold mine that critics say threatens one of the most historic sites in the north-central state of San Luis Potosi.

As America debates whether to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, in the ninth year of a war for ends we cannot discern, a riveting new history recalls times when Americans fought for vital national interests.

Authorities have announced charges against the owner of a beauty clinic that allegedly performed a botched buttock job on Mexican rock star Alejandra Guzman.

Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico's drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor.

One of San Antonio's most-wanted fugitives was arrested in Mexico last week and faces multiple charges including capital murder and intoxication manslaughter, officials said.

The mayors of Mexican border cities agreed during a meeting here to work on improving the perception that their northern neighbors and people from other countries have about them.

The Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has surpassed 2,000 homicides this year, figures show.

An article published Online First and in a future edition of The Lancet reports that a study of Mexican swine flu cases shows that infants and people aged 39 years and under are the most likely to get infected.

A terrible future is writ large on the walls of Acasico's Flamacordis Church. From floor to ceiling, the sanctuary is covered in scenes of an apocalyptic flood.

Hurricane Ida swiped the resort city of Cancun yesterday with bands of wind and rain as it steamed north towards the Gulf of Mexico, where officials issued a hurricane watch for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi.

Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.

Forbes Magazine named drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman - a fugitive reputed to be hiding in the mountains of northern Mexico - to its list of the 67 "World's Most Powerful People" on Wednesday.

Main Category: Genetics Also Included In: Public Health ; Biology / Biochemistry ; Conferences Article Date: 09 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST The scientific ability to quickly and accurately identify species through DNA "barcoding" is being embraced and applied by a growing legion of global authorities - from medical and agricultural researchers to police ...

The Associated Press on Wednesday announced changes in its Latin America and Caribbean operations, closing a service limited to Puerto Rican news within Puerto Rico while adding editors and reporters elsewhere for the expanding Spanish market in the Americas.

Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four others, authorities said.

Police rescued four suspected kidnappers from a town hall surrounded by hundreds of angry residents who wanted to punish them themselves.

A Mexican mayor known for his tough anti-crime proposals and seeming advance knowledge of the death of a purported kidnapper said Tuesday that he has received threats and now has a security escort.

Reported by: Christen Bejar Email: cbejar@abc15.com Reported by: Associated Press Last Update: 6:58 pm TUCSON, AZ a ' A Mexican police officer was sentenced on Tuesday to eight months in federal prison for unlawful possession of ammunition.

Another month, another absolutely massive Street View update. The big news is that Google has launched a wealth of imagery for previously uncovered Mexico; but they've also added imagery to Hawaii for the first time, added many new places in the Netherlands, and also provided brand new coverage for huge areas of Spain.

November 9, 2009: Clear Channel Radio's Total Traffic Network and Mexican broadcaster Grupo Acir have launched the first RDS-TMC navigational service in Mexico City, providing traffic data to Mexico-enabled devices.

Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin.

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Mexican prosecutors say three suspects, including three doctors, were arrested for allegedly abducting and selling newborn babies from a Mexico City hospital.

When soldiers tried to halt a suspicious-looking SUV that was being escorted through Monterrey by a state policeman, the officer radioed for backup.

MEXICO CITY / SAN SALVADOR: More than 100 people were killed as heavy rains set off mudslides and caused flooding in El Salvador, rescue workers said.

Design Frequency matched case-control study. Setting Specialty hospital in Mexico City, March to May 2009.

The federal government has agreed to what's being billed as an unprecedented commitment to wilderness conservation in North America.

A gang member who escaped from a Sunnyside jail in 2006 has been captured in Manzanillo, Mexico.

The Mexican army said Saturday it has seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country's northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico.

The family of a 52-year-old former Arizona teacher says he was one of 13 people killed in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

Nov. 7 - A Mexican mother has been reunited with her one-year-old daughter after the baby girl was allegedly sold to another woman by a baby-selling ring in Mexico City.

Ida strengthened back into a tropical storm early on Saturday off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and was moving north toward the Cayman Islands, where the government issued a tropical storm warning.

A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday.

Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners.

Around dinnertime tonight, the Toronto region will find out whether it has finally overcome the stigma of past failed Olympic bids to host its first major international sporting event since the 1930s: the 2015 Pan American Game.

Authorities say gunmen have killed a police commander in Mexico's deadliest city, where a dismembered, decapitated body was found hours before.

Two vintage beetle Volkswagen taxies pass by a new "Metrobus" in Mexico City. Germany, Mexico and the United States have crafted some of the world's smartest policies for improving energy use, according to a study released on the sidelines of the UN climate talks here.

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.

Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 scooped up four gold gramophones at the Latin Grammys Thursday night, with their politically charged reggaeton winning best urban album for "Los de Atras Vienen Conmigo." The half brothers that make up Calle 13 - Rene Perez, who is known as "Residente," and Eduardo Cabra, or "Visitante" - posed for cameras on the carpet ...

Prosecutors questioned the entire police force of a northern Mexican town Thursday after the assassination of an army general who had been appointed police chief just four days earlier.

Flooding after days of heavy rain along Mexico's Gulf Coast has forced more than 44,000 people from their homes.

A magnitude 3.3 earthquake struck overnight near the U.S.-Mexico border, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported in the San Diego area.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc., today announced the incorporation of Takeda Pharmaceuticals Mexico, S.A. de C.V. This expansion strengthens the company's North American presence, bolstering existing operations in the United States and Canada.

Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner promoted their new film "Luna Nueva" or " Twilight Saga: New Moon " in Mexico City yesterday.

Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City, authorities said Wednesday.

Prosecutors say a gang of gunmen has killed six men in a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Exorcisms have long been a part of Catholicism, yet they are something most Catholics have never experienced.

With more than 1.7 million military veterans in Texas and just nine Veterans Affairs hospitals, long drives are not uncommon in the Rio Grande Valley and some other parts of the state with large veteran populations.

CNN : A 20-year-old woman from Iraq has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father, police say, ran her over with a car because she had become "too Westernized." Noor Faleh Almaleki died Monday of injuries suffered when she was run over October 20 in a parking lot in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria, Arizona, police there said.

Police and soldiers killed a federal agent driving one of three cars that ignored orders to stop in northern Mexico, triggering a chase and gunbattle Tuesday, authorities said.

Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of Mexican town San Pedro Garza Garcia is seen in Monterrey, Mexico, Monday, Nov.

Traffic in the U.S. enters Mexico at the San Ysidro border crossing, the world's busiest, on June 27, 2008 in Tijuana, Mexico.

Mexico City, Nov 3 : A group of about 20 armed attackers stole 5,000 children's bicycles from a manufacturing company in Mexico City, after threatening and locking up company workers.

Authorities say a Mexican citizen accused of being the leader of a drug trafficking organization has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison.

A A A' Officials in Mexico's capital said Monday they had identified four bound bodies found in a sport utility vehicle over the weekend with hand-lettered messages identifying the dead men as kidnappers.

Georgia Aquarium officials say a beluga whale has died unexpectedly while on a temporary stay at Sea World in San Antonio.

A magnitude-4.0 earthquake has shaken part of the southeastern California region bordering Baja California.

SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Santa Cruz police said Paulo Luna took a bus to Mexico from San Diego Thursday.They think he got across the border after declaring himself an illegal immigrant to Border Patrol agents.Later, agents found out he's wanted for murdering Tyler Tenorio.

It looks like like Boris has got himself a nice pair of skin-coloured board shorts.

By Marc Lacey In the savage battle for territory between Mexico's blood thirsty drugs gangs, there has been a mass of innocent victims a ' but among the most traumatised are the children who stumble across the mutilated corpses THE little boy, his school uniform neatly pressed and his friends gathered around, holds up ten little fingers, each one ...

Share + Nov 1, 2009 8:39 pm US/Eastern MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer MEXICO CITY Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a "record for bilateral cooperation between the two countries." The milestone underscored the long distance ...

Gunmen ambushed a peasant union leader and his family in northern Mexico , killing him and 14 others in an attack that bore the hallmarks of a hit by drug cartels but one that his organization said may have been related to his union work.

Are you a cultural festival junkie? Treasures abound in Mexico and in your nearby Mexican neighborhood.

MEXICO CITY: Mexican soldiers discovered a sophisticated but incomplete tunnel running under the border into the United States and arrested six people in the process of digging, the army said.

El Planeta , News Report, Kimberly Kinnecom, Translated by Elena Shore, Posted: Oct 31, 2009 Editor's Note: Deb Colburn, owner of a Cambridge shop that sells Mexican art, says Americans can learn a lot from Mexicans about how to deal with the death of a loved one.