Mexico City - Mexico’s new telecommunications law aims to break the hold of dominant players that have made the country’s industry an anomaly on the global map and rebuild it “brick by brick,” a senior government official said on Friday.The law, approved by Mexico’s ...

MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto has ordered an investigation into the closure of a popular restaurant after the daughter of the country’s consumer watchdog was denied a table. In a bizarre episode worthy of Mexican telenovela, Pena Nieto has waded into the furore ...

MEXICO CITY : At least 13 inmates were killed and 87 others injured in a prison riot in the state of San Luis Potosi, north of Mexico City, said state governor Fernando Toranzo. Of those injured, at least 22 were hospitalized with serious injuries, Toranzo said in a late Saturday press conference. ...

Metro - Eight golden girls from Mexico have proved age is no barrier to achieving fame by entering the Queen of the Elderly beauty pageant. The event in Guadalajara city, western Mexico, is open to ladies between 65 and 75 years old and they must be prepared to answer questions about their lives ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Zara fashion house boss Amancio Ortega of Spain topped the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest billionaires Monday. Slim, who controls Latin American telecommunications power America Movil and retail/industrial ...

DURANGO, Mexico  - Eleven prisoners and six guards were killed Tuesday in armed clashes at a prison in northern Mexico that erupted when inmates attempted a jailbreak, state security officials said. The fighting broke out as wardens were “thwarting the inmates’ attempted prison ...

PUEBLA  - A furious client killed a pizza delivery man in Mexico for being 40 minutes late, authorities said Thursday.The victim’s body, eyes blindfolded and hands bound, was found Monday in the town of Tetla, some 140 kilometres (90 miles) east of Mexico City, said the public ...

LOS CABOS - The world’s biggest economies must commit to a strong Europe and could agree to further bolster the International Monetary Fund’s ability to contain fallout from Europe’s debt crisis, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said.Calderon will host the Group of 20 leaders at ...

A major earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, unleashing panic as it damaged hundreds of buildings and caused homes in the capital to bounce like "trampolines". Office workers fled into the street when the 7.4-magnitude quake shook Mexico City for more than a minute. Cell phone lines went down, ...

MONTEVIDEO  - A sudden capital outflow from Mexico and other emerging economies is an outside risk despite a recent spike in returns on U.S. Treasuries, Mexican Deputy Finance Minister Gerardo Rodriguez said on Saturday.Treasury prices fell for an eighth consecutive day on Friday and yields ...

MONTERREY, Mexico  - Members of Mexico's Zetas drug gang killed 44 rivals from the Gulf cartel in a prison riot before staging a mass escape, possibly with help from authorities, Mexican officials said Monday.Prisoners bludgeoned and stabbed other inmates to death in one of Mexico's deadliest ...

LOS CABOS  - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday entered a weekend of talks of the Group of 20 major economies in Mexico where her aides said she would push for freer but fairer trade.Clinton started her three days in the Pacific Ocean resort of Los Cabos by heading to a private ...

MONTERREY, Mexico - At least 38 inmates have been killed in a riot at a prison near the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, officials said Sunday. The clashes broke out overnight between rival gangs at Apodoca prison, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Monterrey. Families were gathering outside the ...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has inaugurated the world’s highest cable-stayed bridge. The 403m (1,321ft) tall Baluarte bridge spans a deep ravine in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in the north.It is part of a new highway crossing some of Mexico’s most rugged terrain, from ...

NUEVO LAREDO (AFP) - Troops made a grisly Christmas discovery in northeastern Mexico when they found 13 bodies in a truck, seen as the latest explosion of violence in the battle between warring drug cartels. Soldiers found two messages at the scene in Tamaulipas state "alluding to the rivalry ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Three US citizens were among those killed when gunmen attacked buses in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, said a US State Department official said on Saturday. The three were travelling for the holidays when they and several other passengers on the bus were killed by ...

BERLIN (AFP) Midfielder Jonathan dos Santos has failed to make Mexicos final 23-player squad for the World Cup unveiled by the countrys football federation on Monday. In a statement the federation confirmed: The Barcelona player Jonathan dos Santos has been remvoed from the squad and will not ...

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Gunmen killed 18 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in northern Mexico, lining them up and executing them one-by-one, as a day-long surge in violence claimed at least 40 lives across the country. Witnesses told police that the assault in the state of Chihuahua, carried out ...

NEWLYWEDS Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are back in Los Angeles after being forced to abandon their tour of Mexico over swine flu fears. Montag - who wore a mask while in Mexico to fight off the swine flu - wrote on her Twitter page that they are now praying for their health, reports People ...

LONDON  - World oil prices rose on Monday as traders fretted about the potential impact of Tropical Storm Fay on energy facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for September delivery, added 35 cents to 114.12 dollars a barrel after bouncing above 115 in ...