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Mexican federal police rescued 51 migrant hostages who were being held in northeastern Mexico, the country's public security ministry said Tuesday.

A suspect in the kidnapping and killing of bus passengers near the U.S. border led Mexican soldiers to another set of clandestine graves containing 16 bodies, bringing to 88 the number of corpses found in mass pits in the northern state of Tamaulipas.

An earthquake has been felt strongly in the capital of Mexico and as far as the southernmost border.

Fifteen bodies, all but one of them decapitated, were found early on Saturday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, local media reported.

At least 14 people were killed and 33 injured after an oil pipeline exploded Sunday morning in central Mexico, officials said.

At least 141 inmates escaped Friday from a prison in Mexico's northeast border city of Nuevo Laredo, Notimex reported, citing an official.

Mexico's divided Congress is unlikely to pass President Felipe Calderon's pivotal plans to reform the police and combat money laundering, risking a major setback in the war against violent drug cartels.

A growing number of Mexicans including many from the middle classes see bulletproofing their vehicles as a necessity and not a luxury.

Hurricane Richard formed in the Caribbean and steamed toward an expected landfall Sunday in the tiny Central American nation of Belize, where ...

Hundreds of people were buried in their homes early Tuesday after a rain-soaked mountainside gave way in southwestern Mexico, officials said.